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NetVault Plug-in for SnapMirror to Tape 10.0.5 - User Guide

Upgrading the plug-in

To upgrade the plug-in, follow the steps in the section Installing the plug-in. You can perform an upgrade installation without removing the current version of the plug-in.
To apply new configuration values after an upgrade, open the NetVault WebUI, and browse the plug-in node. On Linux® x86-64 platforms, restart the NetVault Backup Service.

Removing the plug-in

To remove Plug‑in for SnapMirror to Tape
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In the Navigation pane, click Manage Clients.
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In the NetVault Backup Clients list, select the client on which the plug-in is installed, and click Manage.
3
In the Installed Plug-ins table, select NDMP SnapMirror to Tape Plugin, and click the Remove Plugin button ().
4
In the confirmation dialog box, click Remove.
 
 

Configuring the plug-in

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Prerequisites
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Adding a NetApp filer
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Configuring NetVault Backup user account
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Configuring default settings
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Configuring media block size

Prerequisites

Before you start the configuration procedure, verify that the following requirements are met:
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Connect the backup devices: Depending on the Data Transfer Model that you are using, connect the backup device to the NetVault Backup Server, Client, or NetApp filer.
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Add the NetApp filer: Add the NetApp filer as an NDMP Server to the Plug-in for NDMP. For more information, see the Dell NetVault Backup Plug-in for NDMP User's Guide.
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In a filer-to-filer data transfer model, add both the target filer and the filer to which the backup device is connected to as NDMP Servers.
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Add the backup devices: Add the backup device to the NetVault Backup Server if the device is connected to a filer or NetVault Backup Client. For more information about adding devices, see the Dell NetVault Backup Administrator’s Guide.
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Enable UTF-8 encoding: To use UTF-8 encoding, do the following:
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Enable UTF-8 encoding on the filer and each target volume.
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Configure appropriate language-type on each target volume.
To determine if UTF-8 encoding is supported on the target filer and for instructions on configuring Character Set Encoding on the filer, see the relevant filer documentation.
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Verify that the NDMP service is set to Storage Virtual Machine (SVM)-scoped mode on Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3: On Clustered Data ONTAP 8.3, SMTape backups and restores are only supported in SVM-scoped NDMP mode.
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