Data ONTAP® 8.2
Data Protection Tape Backup and Recovery Guide
For 7-Mode
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Data protection using tape
- Advantages and disadvantages of tape backup
- Types of tape backup supported by Data ONTAP
- How to initiate a dump or SMTape backup
- Differences between dump backup and SMTape backup
- Considerations before choosing a tape backup method
- How online migration affects tape backup
- How volume move operations affect tape backup
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Tape drive management
- What tape devices are
- Displaying tape device statistics
- Displaying supported tape devices
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What assigning tape aliases is
- Displaying existing aliases of tape drives
- Displaying information about tape drives and medium changers
- Assigning tape aliases
- Removing tape aliases
- Propagating tape aliases to multiple
storage systems
- Considerations when configuring multipath tape access
- How to add tape drives and libraries to storage systems
- How to display tape drive and tape library information
- Controlling tape drives
- What qualified tape drives are
- How to use a nonqualified tape drive
- What tape reservations are
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NDMP management
- Advantages of NDMP
- What NDMP security is
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How to manage NDMP
- Displaying the NDMP version
- NDMP options
- NDMP extensions supported by Data ONTAP
- Tape backup using NDMP services
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Data backup to tape using the dump engine
- How a dump backup works
- What the dump engine backs up
- What increment chains are
- How to specify tape devices for the backup
- What the /etc/dumpdates file is
- What the blocking factor is
- Considerations before using the dump backup
- When to restart a dump backup
- How a dump restore works
- What the dump engine restores
- Considerations before restoring data
- How to perform a dump backup and restore using NDMP services
- How to perform a dump backup using the CLI
- How to perform a dump restore using the CLI
- Data backup to tape using the SMTape engine
- How SMTape backup works
- What tape seeding is
- Features of SMTape
- Features not supported in SMTape
- How to perform an SMTape backup and restore using NDMP services
- How to back up and restore using the SMTape commands
- Enabling or disabling concurrent volume SnapMirror and SMTape backup operations
- Performing SMTape restores
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What event logging is
- Accessing the event log files
- What the dump and restore event log message format is
- What the SMTape event log message format is
- Enabling or disabling event logging
- Error messages for tape backup and restore
- Backup and restore error messages
- NDMP error messages
- ndmpcopy error messages
- Dump error messages
- SMTape error messages
- Internal assertion
- Job aborted due to shutdown
- Job not found
- Job aborted due to Snapshot autodelete
- Invalid volume path
- UNIX style RMT tape drive is not supported
- Volume is currently in use by other operations
- Volume offline
- Volume not restricted
- Tape is currently in use by other operations
- Invalid input tape
- Too many active jobs
- Failed to allocate memory
- Failed to get data buffer
- Failed to create job UUID
- Failed to create snapshot
- Failed to find snapshot
- Failed to lock snapshot
- Failed to access the named snapshot
- Failed to softlock qtree snapshots
- Failed to delete softlock
- Failed to delete snapshot
- Image header missing or corrupted
- Chunks out of order
- Tapes out of order
- Already read volume_name tape_number
- Mismatch in backup set ID
- Aborting: Destination volume, volume_name, is too small
- Aborting: Destination volume, volume_name, is a clone
- Source volume size is greater than maximum supported SIS volume size on this platform. Aborting
- Incompatible SnapMirror or copy source Version. Aborting
- Transfers from volume volume_name are temporarily disabled
- Too many active transfers at once, aborting
- Invalid contents in destination volume geometry string volume_geometry_string, aborting
- Cannot init input, aborting
- Source volume is not a flexible volume. Aborting
- Source volume is a flexible volume. Aborting
- Destination is not an aggregate. Aborting
- Source is not an aggregate. Aborting
- Source is not a hybrid aggregate. Aborting
- Invalid checksum for the chunk descriptor
- Received VBN header with invalid checksum error_string, aborting transfer on volume volume_name
- Duplicate VBN VBN_number received for volume volume_name, aborting transfer
- Bad block in read stream. VBN = VBN_number, max_VBN = max_VBN_number
- Invalid checksum found for one of the data block, where VBN number is VBN_number
- Block for VBN VBN_number failed checksum verification, aborting the current transfer on volume volume_name
- Language setting for the Snapshot is not found
- Volume is currently under migration
- Failed to get latest snapshot
- Failed to load new tape
- Remote tape not supported
- Failed to initialize tape
- Failed to initialize restore stream
- Failed to read backup image
- Invalid backup image magic number
- Chunk format not supported
- Invalid backup image checksum
- Mismatch in backup level number
- Mismatch in backup time stamp
- Volume read-only
- Invalid source path: /vol/newvol/
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