Administrator Guide
Table 16. Backup and Restore Applications
Application Supported Version
CommVault Simpana 11.x
Dell Quest NetVault 10.x, 11.x
EMC Networker 9.x
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager 6.3
Symantec BackupExec 2014, 2015
Symantec NetBackup 7.x
Refer to the application documentation for the minimal revision/service pack supporting Dell FluidFS systems.
Table 17. Supported Tape Libraries lists the supported tape libraries for 2–way NDMP backup (Fibre Channel connections only).
Table 17. Supported Tape Libraries
Supplier Models
Dell TL-2000, TL-4000, ML-6000
Table 18. NDMP Agent Characteristics lists the supported range for each of the NDMP characteristics.
Table 18. NDMP Agent Characteristics
Functionality Supported Range
NDMP version v2, v3, v4
DMA address type IPv4 only
DMA servers configured Up to 10
Concurrent NDMP sessions Up to 10
DMA user-name length 1–63 bytes (accepts Unicode)
DMA password length 1–32 characters
Maximum number of include paths for an NDMP job 32
Maximum number of exclude paths for an NDMP
job
32
NOTE: Your environment should allow ICMP (ping) traffic between the FluidFS controllers’ private IP addresses (not
the access VIPs) and the backup server.
Table 19. 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 19. 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.
0
HIST Specifies how file history is to be generated. The supported values are d, f, y,
and n.
Y
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