Hitachi HDI/VFP
This information is provided to help you use NetBackup for NDMP with the Hitachi HDI/VFP system.
For further details, consult the Help within the administration console, or contact Hitachi Corporation.
Using SSH to access one of the processing nodes using the service account, run the following command:
sudo ndmppasswd root oldpasswd newpasswd newpasswd
For a list of the devices that are attached to the system, run the following command:
sudo tapelist
For a list of tape drives that are not yet configured for NDMP, run the following command:
sudo tapelist - D
To add those drives for NDMP access, run the following command:
sudo tapeadd - a
Note:
The HDI/VFP system only supports the tar backup type. However, the default type that NetBackup uses is dump. Therefore, you must add the following variable to the NetBackup policy:
set TYPE=tar