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The Network Data Management Protocol, or NDMP, Plugin Module easily integrates with NetVault^®: Backup to maximize the benefits of NDMP. The NDMP Plugin Module

• enhances backup performance
• maximizes data transfer over the network
• maintains centralized backup administration 
• provides fast, online backup and restore of data

Available for UNIX, Windows, and Linux, the NDMP Plugin Module provides a full-featured solution for NAS devices, including:

• local backup
• automation control
• direct access restores
• Dynamically Shared Devices

Central Management and Easy-to-Use Interface

The NDMP Plugin Module simplifies control of NAS environments with a common backup and restore solution that provides centralized management via an interactive GUI.

Support for Heterogeneous Server Environments

Your can have seamless interoperability in a mixed server environment of UNIX, Windows, and Linux operating systems and NAS devices.

Multiple Backup Configuration Options

Your can also increase NAS and network availability by defining NDMP-based backup functions to meet their existing storage environments. The NDMP Plugin Module supports all five data transfer models:

1. Filer data to local filer attached tape devices
2. Filer to tape devices attached to the NetVault: Backup server or a SmartClient
3. Direct open systems client data to tape devices attached to a filer
4. Filer data to a remote tape device attached to another filer
5. Filer to an NDMP compliant network attached tape device

Direct Access Restores

The NDMP Plugin Module provides faster recovery of whole directories, a single file, or subsets of files. When files are backed up, a location is recorded for each. At restore time, this information can be used to position the file in an exact location on the media rather than reading sequentially through the whole backup. (This capability works with filers that support DAR functionality.)

Fast Indexing of Backup

You will be able to optimize backups with selectable index options. Enhanced options include writing the index to media or to the NetVault: Backup database after a backup completes. 

Shadow Tape Technology

NetVault: Backup supports the NetApp^® NearStore^® VTL Shadow Tape technology. This removes the need to import the physical media into the physical library, allowing NetVault: Backup to perform a 'quick import' by importing from the shadow store where possible.

The Result

• enhanced backup performance
• reduced data transfer over the network
• support for a centralized backup administration with online backup and restore of data

This integration significantly streamlines enterprise data recovery by integrating Shadow Tape with NetVault: Backup policies to provide simplicity and ease of management for data backup, recovery, and protection. 

System Requirements

• Linux x86, Linux x86-64, Linux Itanium, Windows x86, Windows x86-64, Solaris (SPARC), Solaris x86-64, Mac OS X, HP-UX PA
• Earliest NetVault: Backup release required: v7.4.5
• NDMP version 3 or later
• License needed for each NAS device and each NAS attached drive

General Information

• NDMP Datasheet
• NDMP Brochure

Technical information

• NDMP Users's Guide
• NDMP NAS Compatibility Guide
• Configuring NDMP Backups with Celerra and BakBone NetVault

Case Studies

• Publicsoft B.V.
  Publicsoft used NetVault: Backup to safeguard its Oracle-based applications with Linux-based NetVault NDMP backups. The company appreciated the user-level access and notification of NetVault: Backup.View