Compatibility Matrix

Functionality Supported Range

Maximum number of exclude paths for an NDMP

job

NOTE: Your environment should allow ICMP (ping) traffic between the FluidFS controllers’ private IP

addresses (not the access VIPs) and the backup server.

Table 23. Supported NDMP Environment Variables describes the NDMP environmental variables that are

supported by FluidFS. Refer to the Data Management Application (DMA) documentation for a listing of the

variables supported by DMA. If DMA does not set any of the variables, the NDMP server operates with the

default value.

Table 23. Supported NDMP Environment Variables

Variable Name Description Default

TYPE Specifies the type of backup/restore application. Valid values

are dump and tar, and are case sensitive.

dump – NDMP server generates inode-based file history.

tar – NDMP server generates file-based file history.

dump

FILESYSTEM Specifies the path to be used for backup. The path must be a

directory.

Not

applicable

LEVEL Specifies the dump level for the backup operation. Valid

values are 0 to 9.

HIST Specifies how file history is to be generated. The supported

values are d, f, y, and n.

d specifies that node/dir format file history will be generated.

f specifies that file-based file history will be generated.

y specifies that the default file history type (which is the

node/dir format) will be generated.

n specifies that no file history will be generated.

DIRECT Specifies whether the restore is a Direct Access Retrieval.

Valid values are Y and N.

UPDATE Specifies whether the dump level and dump time for a

backup operation should be updated on the NDMP server so

that subsequent backups can reference the dump level from

previous backups. Valid values Y and N.

EXCLUDE Specifies a pattern for file or directory names that are not to

be backed up. The pattern is a comma-separated list of file or

directory names, up to 32. Each name will be used to match

to nodes encountered during backup. A name can contain an

asterisk (*)as the wildcard character. The comma (,) or

No default

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