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  2. NetBackup™ NAS Administrator's Guide
  3. Section III. Using NDMP
  4. NAS appliance information for NDMP
  5. Vendor-specific information
  6. Oracle Solaris Server
NetBackup™ NAS Administrator's Guide

Oracle Solaris Server

General Information

This information is provided to help you use NetBackup for NDMP with an Oracle Solaris NDMP server.

For further details, contact Oracle.

Pre-requisites

To install the server software on any Solaris 11 server:

pkg install service/storage/ndmp

To allow control of locally-attached tape libraries, configure the sgen driver:

update_drv - a - I "scsiclass,08" sgen

reboot

Note:

It is not recommended to run NetBackup on the same machine. NetBackup Tape Library control cannot run in conjunction with Solaris Tape Library control.

Service Configuration

To display the existing configuration:

ndmpadm get

The username and password for NDMP access is set when the service is enabled:

ndmpadm enable - a cram-md5 - u <username>

Enable DAR:

ndmpadm set dar-support=yes

Enable BSD-style drive access:

ndmpadm set drive-type=bsd

Configure volumes for NDMP export:

ndmpadm set fs-export=/<path1>,[/<path2>, etc.]

To start/stop the NDMP service:

svcadm [enable|disable] ndmpd

Troubleshooting

To display where the service logs:

# svcs -l ndmpd
fmri         svc:/system/ndmpd:default
name         NDMP Service
enabled      true
state        online
next_state   none
state_time   May 13, 2015 12:54:07 PM CDT
logfile      /var/svc/log/system-ndmpd:default.log
restarter    svc:/system/svc/restarter:default
contract_id  123 
manifest     /lib/svc/manifest/system/ndmp.xml
dependency   require_all/error svc:/milestone/self-assembly-complete
             (online)
Other

If you specify an incorrect path name in the NetBackup policy's Backup Selections list (file list), the entire backup fails with status code 99, "NDMP backup failure."

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