IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Extended Edition, Version 7.1

Interfaces for NDMP operations

You can use several interfaces to perform NDMP (network data management protocol) operations. You can schedule an NDMP operation using the BACKUP NODE and RESTORE NODE commands, and scheduling the operation as an administrative schedule.

Client Interfaces:

Backup-archive command-line client (on a Windows, 64 bit AIX®, or 64 bit Oracle Solaris system)
web client

Server Interfaces:

Server console
Command line on the administrative client
Tip: All examples in this chapter use server commands.

The Tivoli® Storage Manager web client interface, available with the backup-archive client, displays the file systems of the network-attached storage (NAS) file server in a graphical view. The client function is not required, but you can use the client interfaces for NDMP operations. The client function is recommended for file-level restore operations. See File-level backup and restore for NDMP operations for more information about file-level restore.

Tivoli Storage Manager prompts you for an administrator ID and password when you perform NDMP functions using either of the client interfaces. See the Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide for more information about installing and activating client interfaces.

Attention: In order to use the Tivoli Storage Manager backup-archive client or web client to perform NAS operations, the file system names on the NAS device must have a forward slash ("/") as the first character. This restriction does not affect NAS operations initiated from the Tivoli Storage Manager server command line.

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