Data ONTAP 7.3 Data Protection Tape Backup and Recovery Guide
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Trademark information
About this guide
Audience
Accessing Data ONTAP man pages
Terminology
Command, keyboard, and typographic conventions
Special messages
What data protection is
When to use tape backup and recovery
Tape drive management
What tape devices are
Types of tape devices
Tape device name format
Supported number of simultaneous tape devices
Displaying tape device statistics
Displaying supported tape devices
What assigning tape aliases is
What physical path names are
What worldwide names are
Displaying existing aliases of tape drives
Displaying information about tape drives or libraries
Assigning tape aliases
Removing tape aliases
Propagating tape aliases to multiple storage systems
Propagating tape aliases using UNIX shell scripts
How to add Fibre Channel-attached tape drives and libraries
How to display tape device and tape drive information
Displaying information about tape drives
Displaying information about tape medium changers
Displaying information about tape drive connections to the storage system
What tape files are
How to control tape drives
Moving a tape to the end of data
Moving forward to a file
Moving backward to the beginning of a file
Rewinding a tape
Taking a tape drive offline
Displaying status information
Qualified tape drives
The format of the tape configuration file
How the storage system qualifies a new tape drive dynamically
How to use a nonqualified tape drive
Displaying information about nonqualified tape drives
Tape drive information required for emulation
Emulating a qualified tape drive
What tape reservations are
Enabling tape reservations
Disabling tape reservations
What data backup to tape is
Why back up data from disk to tape
Types and methods of backup
What the dump command backs up
How the dump command works
Preparing to use the dump command
Determining the amount of backup data
Estimating the number of tapes for the backup
How to enter the dump command
The dump command syntax
How to use the dump command
How to minimize backup time and data loss
How to decrease tape backup time
How to minimize the number of tape drives
What to label on the backup tapes
Specifying the backup level
What increment chains are
Improving incremental dump performance
The /etc/dumpdates file
Updating the /etc/dumpdates file
How to specify tape devices for the backup
Specifying a local tape device
Specifying a tape device on a remote storage system
Examples of a tape drive attached to a Solaris system
Specifying the dump path
Specifying a list of files for backup
Backing up all data that is not in a qtree
Excluding specified files and directories
Omitting ACLs from a backup
Specifying a name for a backup
What the blocking factor is
Specifying a blocking factor
Specifying the tape file size
Appending backups to tapes
Verifying the files backed up by a dump command backup
Checking the status of a dump backup
Finding out whether a backup has to be restarted
How to get details about a specific backup
When to restart a dump command backup
Restarting a dump command backup
Deleting restartable dump command backups
What data restoration from tape is
When to restore data
What the restore command recovers
How the restore command works
Information required for using the restore command
Where to enter the restore command
Preparing the destination
Restore command syntax
What restore types are
What modifiers are
Executing a restore command
Restoring incremental backups
Restoring the entire storage system
Restoring each volume backed up as separate subtrees or qtrees
Restoring individual files and directories
Specifying a full restore
What a table-of-contents restore is
Specifying table-of-contents restores
Specifying a resume restore
Specifying tape devices in the restore command
Specifying a single tape file on a multifile tape
Specifying the restore destination
Specifying the blocking factor during restore
Displaying detailed status output
Specifying to ignore inode limitations
Specifying automatic confirmations
Specifying no ACLs to be restored
Specifying no qtree information
Specifying a test restore
Restore examples: Restoring using a remote tape drive
Restore examples: Multiple tape restores
NDMP management
What the advantages of NDMP are
What NDMP security is
Specifying NDMP access by host or interface
Specifying the NDMP authentication type
Enabling or disabling NDMP connection logging
Specifying the NDMP password length
Generating an NDMP-specific password for non-root administrators
Enabling and disabling NDMP services
Specifying a preferred network interface
Turning off data connection specification
Displaying the general status information about NDMP sessions
Displaying the detailed NDMP session information
Optimizing NDMP communication performance
What NDMP debug messages are
Enabling the NDMP debug log messages
Displaying the NDMP debug log level
Changing NDMP debug log messages
Displaying an NDMP session log file
Why you need to specify the NDMP version
Displaying the NDMP version
Specifying the NDMP version
Terminating an NDMP session
NDMP extensions
Data backup to tape using NDMP services
Common NDMP tape backup topologies
Considerations when using NDMP
Tape devices and configurations you can use with the storage system
Preparing for basic NDMP backup application management
Enabling or disabling enhanced DAR functionality
What environment variables do
Environment variables supported by Data ONTAP
What the ndmpcopy command does
Copying data using ndmpcopy
Examples of the ndmpcopy command
Displaying file history statistics
Event logging for backup and restore
What event logging is
What the event log message format is
What logging events are
What dump events are
What restore events are
Enabling or disabling event logging
