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Administrator activities for Tivoli Data Protection for NDMP include managing:
You can update, query, rename, and remove NAS nodes. For example, assume you have created a new policy domain named NASDOMAIN for NAS nodes and you want to update a NAS node named NASNODE1 to include it in the new domain. You might first query the node.
query node nasnode1 type=nas
Then you might change the domain of the node with the following command:
update node nasnode1 domain=nasdomain
To rename a NAS node, you must also rename the corresponding NAS data mover; they must both must have the same name. For example, to rename NASNODE1 to NAS1 you must perform the following steps:
rename node nasnode1 nas1
Attention: When defining a new data mover for a node that you have renamed, ensure that the data mover name matches the new node name and that the new data mover parameters are duplicates of the original data mover parameters. Any mismatch between a node name and a data mover name or between new data mover parameters and original data mover parameters can prevent you from establishing a session with the NAS file server.
To delete the NAS node, first delete any file spaces for the node. Then delete any paths from the data mover before deleting the data mover. Then you can enter the following command:
remove node nas1
You can update, query, and delete the data movers you define for NAS file servers. For example, if you shut down a NAS file server for maintenance, you might want to take the data mover offline. To do this, first query your data movers to identify the data mover for the NAS file server you want to maintain.
query datamover nasnode1
Then issue the following command to make the data mover offline:
update datamover nasnode1 online=no
To delete the data mover, you must first delete any path definitions in which the data mover has been used as the source. Then issue the following command to delete the data mover:
delete datamover nasnode1
Attention: If the data mover has a path to the library, and you delete the data mover or make the data mover offline, you disable access to the library.
If you are already using a drive for Tivoli Storage Manager operations, you can dedicate that drive to NDMP operations. Remove Tivoli Storage Manager server access by deleting the path definition with the following command:
delete path server1 nasdrive1 srctype=server desttype=drive library=naslib
Managing storage pools for Tivoli Data Protection for NDMP backups is different from managing storage pools containing media for traditional Tivoli Storage Manager backups. You can query and update Tivoli Data Protection for NDMP storage pools. You cannot update the DATAFORMAT parameter.
You cannot back up a storage pool that is used for NDMP backups.
The following DEFINE STGPOOL and UPDATE STGPOOL parameters are ignored for Tivoli Data Protection for NDMP storage pools because storage pool hierarchies, reclamation, and migration are not supported for these storage pools:
MAXSIZE
NEXTSTGPOOL
LOWMIG
HIGHMIG
MIGDELAY
MIGCONTINUE
RECLAIMSTGPOOL
OVFLOLOCATION
Attention: Ensure that you do not accidentally use storage pools that have been defined for NDMP operations in traditional Tivoli Storage Manager operations. Be especially careful when assigning the storage pool name as the value for the DESTINATION parameter of the DEFINE COPYGROUP command. Unless the destination is a storage pool with the appropriate data format, the backup will fail.