NDMP Restore to C-DOT

[sn0wcrash]

Hi we are in the process of switching an old netapp installation with Ontap 7.3.7 to a pair of new filers with c-dot under 8.3 i guess. I have a question regarding the restore of old backups. On our old filers we are doing the backup of the cifs volume (qtrees) with emc networker 8. My question is will i be able to restore data (docs, xls, etc.) from old backups to the new c-dot cifs area ?

[USCadmin909]

We are having the same issue.

[sn0wcrash]

Hi,

thanks for you reply. Meanwhile we did test with Ontap Simulator 8.3 and i can confirm that ndmp restores from our old environment are working. The only issue we have right now is that the ACL´s don´t get restored somehow, but the data itself is ok.

[adlrg]

As per page below dump/restore should work fine between 7-Mode and cDOT:

https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1368707/html/GUID-C49A1B05-D3AE-467C-B191-8D552211F9FE.html

We've got info from Netapp that NDMP restore of data backed up in 7-Mode with Backup SW >should<  work error free in cDOT.

I would consider following actions before upgrade to cDOT:

- make sure to use AD based auth and avoid CIFS local groups

- at first step upgrade storage system to 7-Mode  8.1.4 (,convert aggrs) and take full backup

BR

[USCadmin909]

Same issue here.

[J-L-B]

We successfully restored from 7-mode vol backups to cDOT vol using Networker 8.2.3.1.  7-mode was 8.2p6 and new cDOT cluster is 8.3.2p4.

Had to use networker cli though but so far all is successful:

"C:\Users\backupuser>nsrndmp_recover  -s <networker_server> -c <netapp_7-mode_controller> -S <networker_SSID> -v off -m <netapp_cDOT_svm_name>::/<netapp_cDOT _svm_name>/<volume_name>/<folder> /vol/<netapp_7-mode_volume_name>/<folder>

syntax is nsrnbmp_recover -s BACKUPSERVER -c NETAPP7-MODECONTROLLER -S NETWORKERSSID -v off -m NETAPPCDOTSVM::/NETAPPCDOTSVM/NETAPPCDOTVOLUME/FOLDER /vol/NETAPP7-MODEVOLUME/FOLDER

where -c is the old netapp controller running 7-mode."

[adlrg · Accepted solution]

just spoken with collegue: backup of CIFS data taken in 7-mode (dot 8.1.2) was successfully restored over NDMP (node scope configuration as Networker does not support CAB NDMP extention yet) with NW 8.0.2.3 in cDOT (8.2.2p2).

BR