To cancel a session, select that session and click
Cancel Session
. Canceling a session kills all
spawned sessions processes and frees their resources if necessary.
To see similar information for completed sessions, select
NDMP Backup
>
Session History
.
To view active sessions from the CLI, use the following command:
ibrix_ndmpsession –l
To view completed sessions, use the following command. The
-t
option restricts the history to
sessions occurring on or before the specified date.
ibrix_ndmpsession –l -s [-t YYYY-MM-DD]
To cancel sessions on a specific file serving node, use the following command:
ibrix_ndmpsession –c SESSION1,SESSION2,SESSION3,... –h HOST
Starting, stopping, or restarting an NDMP Server
When a file serving node is booted, the NDMP Server is started automatically. If necessary, you
can use the following command to start, stop, or restart the NDMP Server on one or more file
serving nodes:
ibrix_server –s –t ndmp –c { start | stop | restart} [-h SERVERNAMES]
Viewing or rescanning tape and media changer devices
To view the tape and media changer devices currently configured for backups, select
Cluster
Configuration
from the Navigator, and then select
NDMP Backup
>
Tape Devices
.
If you add a tape or media changer device to the SAN, click
Rescan Device
to update the list. If
you remove a device and want to delete it from the list, you will need to reboot all of the servers
to which the device is attached.
To view tape and media changer devices from the CLI, use the following command:
ibrix_tape –l
To rescan for devices, use the following command:
ibrix_tape –r
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Configuring system backups
