Consider the following when protecting NDMP devices:
• Protecting NAS devices using NDMP is supported on Recovery-Series and UEB appliances running software version 8.0 or higher.
• The Unitrends appliance must be licensed for the NDMP feature. Check for NDMP=1 in the license string under Settings > System, Updates, and Licensing > License.
• Unitrends currently certifies devices from NetApp and EMC. Devices from other vendors can be added as “Generic” NDMP NAS clients, but behavior for generic devices is unpredictable and unsupported.
• It is important to be familiar with your vendor’s documentation and limitations because they can affect Unitrends protection of your NDMP device.
• Unitrends appliances use port 10000 when protecting NDMP. Port 10000 is open for the following security levels: No Security, Low Security, and Medium Security. You cannot protect NDMP devices if you set your Unitrends appliance to High Security. For more information, see About security levels.
• Full, differential, and incremental backups are supported for NDMP clients. Selective backups are not supported.
• Enterprise backup scheduling is not supported for NDMP clients. When you enter the Enterprise backup subsystem, all NDMP clients are disabled in the Navigation pane.
• Because NDMP NAS devices normally have a limited number of NDMP connections, backup and restore jobs for NDMP clients are queued and run as NDMP connections become available.
• A recurring full backup must be in the schedule.
• NDMP only supports nine consecutive incremental backups between successful fulls and differentials. For schedules with more than nine incremental backups between each full, the tenth incremental is automatically promoted to a differential.
• NDMP backups can only be restored to NDMP devices with the same vendor. For additional compatibility limitations see your vendor’s documentation.
• When performing point-in-time restores for NDMP volumes, you cannot specify files to include or exclude. The volume is restored exactly as it was at the selected recovery point.
• Selective restores are supported for some NDMP devices from the certified vendors. See the vendor documentation for compatibility limitations.