Backing up NAS NDMP clients

Throughout the Administrator Interface, backups of volumes on NDMP clients are displayed as NDMP Full, NDMP Differential, and NDMP Incremental.

Support for NDMP backups varies by vendor. Read your vendor’s documentation for requirements and limitations.

For procedures on backing up NDMP clients, see:

     To run a one-time backup for an NDMP client:

     To create a backup schedule for a NAS NDMP client

To run a one-time backup for an NDMP client:

1        Select the NDMP client in the Navigation pane, and click Backup.

2        Click the 1-Time Backup tab, and choose backup type Full, Differential, or Incremental. See Backup types for more information.

3        Check the desired boxes in the NDMP Volumes to Protect grid.

4        (Optional) Select the preferred backup storage from the Available Devices.

5        Click Backup. The Unitrends appliance queues a job for each volume selected and runs them as NDMP connections become available.

Note: If there are already 9 incrementals since the last successful full backup of the volume and you selected Incremental, you will be notified that you have reached the maximum limit of consecutive incremental backups for this volume and a full must be run.

To create a backup schedule for a NAS NDMP client

1        Select the NDMP client in the Navigation pane, and click Backup.

2        Select the Schedule Backup tab.

3        Enter the Schedule Name.

4        Enter a Schedule Description.

5        Choose the data to backup by checking the desired boxes in the NDMP Volumes to Protect grid. Each volume on an NDMP client can only be protected by a single schedule.

If you do not see a volume you wish to protect, click the Refresh icon.

6        (Optional) Check the Auto-Include new NDMP Volumes box.

Note: Because the Auto-Include new NDMP volumes check box automatically adds new volumes to a schedule, it can only be checked on one schedule for an NDMP client.

7        In the schedule area, select a backup strategy from the list. Choose from Full Backups, Full with Differentials, Full with Incrementals, or Custom.

8        Do one of the following:

For a non-custom strategy, define the frequency at which backups of each type will run using the fields below each backup.

For a custom strategy, click the Calendar icon to define the frequency at which backups of each type will run. Do the following for each backup instance:

     Drag a backup icon onto the calendar. Drag onto today’s date or later.

     In the Add Backup window, define the backup type, start date, start time, recurrence, and description (optional), then click Confirm.

Note about fulls: A full backup must be in the schedule.

Note about automatic promotions to differentials: The NDMP protocol automatically promotes every 9th incremental between fulls to a differential. For more information, see Automatic promotions of NDMP Incremental backups.

9        (Optional) Check Set Retention Settings and modify the minimum, maximum, and legal hold values.

These values apply to all selected volumes in this schedule. To set different values for each selected item, do not enter settings here. Instead, go to Settings > Storage and Retention > Backup Retention. See About retention control for details.

10    (Optional) Click Advanced Settings to select a backup storage device other than the default and change the mail options. Click Confirm to save your advanced settings.

11    Click Save. The Unitrends appliance queues a job for each volume selected and runs them according to the schedule when NDMP connections becomes available.