Dell FluidFS NAS Solutions Administrator's Guide

The NAS cluster solution supports backup and restore using Network Data Management Protocol (NDMP). An NDMP agent installed on the NAS cluster solution ensures that stored data can be backed up and restored using an industry-standard Data Management Application (DMA) that supports NDMP protocol, without needing to install vendor-specific agents on the NAS appliance.

In order to perform backup and restore operations, a DMA must be configured to be able to access the NAS appliance using the LAN or client network. The NAS cluster solution does not use a dedicated address for backup operations, any configured LAN or client network address can be used for backup and restore operations.

NDMP backups on the NAS cluster solution are performed using the LAN or client network. The DMA must be configured to access one of the client VIPs (or a DNS name) of the NAS cluster solution.

The NAS cluster solution does not support a dedicated backup IP address configured on LAN or client network. All Virtual IPs configured on the LAN or client network can be used by backup software to take backups and perform restores.

The NAS cluster solution provides a generic user interface to enable the NDMP agent and is programmed to work independent of the installed NDMP agent.