Administrator Guide

To improve data transfer speed, increase the number of concurrent backup jobs to more than one per NAS controller, distributing
the load across the available NAS controllers.
NDMP Include/Exclude Path
When you dene a backup using DMA, you can select specic directories from the virtual NAS volume to include in, or exclude from,
backup jobs.
Requirements
The following requirements must be met to include or exclude NDMP paths:
• The path specied can be a directory or a le. If the path is a directory, all child elements of that directory will be included in (or
excluded from) the backup.
Each path specied is a child of the backup root directory and must start with a forward slash (/).
• The maximum number of paths that you can include or exclude is 32.
• Each path can be a maximum of 128 bytes long.
• The rst or the last element of the path can contain a wildcard character (*).
• If both include and exclude paths are dened, the NDMP server will rst check for include, then check for exclude.
1. Click the Storage view and select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. In the File System tab navigation pane, select Data Protection.
4. In the right pane, click the Backup tab, then click Edit Settings.
5. The Modify NDMP Settings dialog box appears.
NDMP Exclude Paths and Patterns Using FluidFS
Conguring DMA clients with data-exclusion patterns might not work with a few backup vendors such as BackupExec and
Netbackup. FluidFS v5.0.x adds options for handling exclude paths and patterns, which will be skipped when executing NDMP
backup on the NAS volume.
This option can be congured at the NAS volume level, and is available under NAS Volume settings.
1. Click the Storage view and select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. Select a volume and click Edit Settings.
4. In the Edit NAS Volume Settings panel, click Advanced.
5. Select the NDMP Exclude Patterns Enabled checkbox.
6. Enter a path to exclude and click Add.
Viewing NDMP Jobs and Events
All NDMP jobs and events can be viewed using Storage Manager.
View Active NDMP Jobs
View all NDMP backup and restore operations being processed by the FluidFS cluster.
1. Click the Storage view and select a FluidFS cluster.
2. Click the File System tab.
3. In the File System tab navigation pane, select Data Protection.
4. In the right pane, select Backup.
5. The NDMP jobs are displayed in the NDMP Sessions area.
FluidFS Data Protection
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