PowerScale OneFS 9.8.0.0 Backup and Recovery Guide

Configure NDMP restartable backups for NetWorker

You must configure NetWorker to enable NDMP restartable backups and, optionally, define the checkpoint interval.

1. Configure the client and the directory path that you want to back up as you would normally.
2. In the Client Properties dialog box, enable restartable backups.
   1. On the General page, click the Checkpoint enabled checkbox.
   2. In the Checkpoint granularity drop-down list, select File.
3. In the Application information field, type any NDMP variables that you want to specify.
   The following variable setting specifies a checkpoint interval of 1 GB: CHECKPOINT_INTERVAL_IN_BYTES=1GB
4. Finish configuration and click OK in the Client Properties dialog box.
5. Start the backup.
6. If the backup is interrupted—for example, because of a power failure—restart it.
   1. On the Monitoring page, locate the backup process in the Groups list.
   2. Right-click the backup process and then, in the context menu, click Restart.
   NetWorker automatically restarts the backup from the last checkpoint.