Network and Storage Protocols

SMTAPE to CIFSs share dump

thomasb82
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Hi guys,

 

I have 2 2500er Filers, both running 8.3.

As the second filer is far away and the WAN connection is pretty slow I would like to do the baseline transfer by using smtape.

 

But I only found a documentation for real tape drives:

https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1196819/html/GUID-FDD5EED3-C895-4400-B29D-DF6FA64B53AB.html

 

However I`d like to do smtape to another local volume and mount this via CIFS and then copy the data to an ext. USB drive and do the restore

process on Filer 1.

 

Could you help me with the commands, please?

 

Many thanks!

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YIshikawa
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As per guide, only tape destination using "-tape /<node>/<tape>" is available. No external and internal(WAFL) destination is abailable in SMTape so far.
If you would like such functionality, consider to open a case for enhancement request.

JustinM
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Hi,

 

I have the same request.  I have used the 'smtape' method to initialize a SnapMirror relationship using a NAS device which was CIFS shared.  This however was using 7-mode.  I would assume that the same can be said for Clustered OnTAP??

Justin

klmi
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HI,

 

there is a way to do smtape to a filepath in Ontap 8.3.x

*> system smtape backup -volume test -backup-snapshot test -file-path /<vserver>/<volume>/<filename>

*> version
NetApp Release 8.3.1: Mon Aug 31 12:42:08 UTC 2015

 

 

Remember: its in diagnositc mode, so maybe not officially supported now.

 

BR,

Klaus

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