NAS Volume Configuration and Testing

Starting with Bacula Enterprise 10.2.4, the configuration will be automatically stored with the dump file. It is no longer required to specify this plugin command in the FileSet.

By specifying type=config as a NDMP plugin argument, Bacula will backup a configuration overview of all the NAS volumes to the file /@ndmp/<host>.config. To display the configuration, this file can be restored, and Bacula will display the NAS volume configuration in the Job log as shown in the example:

Plugin = "ndmp:host=nasbox user=root pass=pass type=config"

...
JobId 3: QR  File system /vol/vol2
JobId 3: QR    physdev
JobId 3: QR    unsupported 0x0
JobId 3: QR    type       WAFL
JobId 3: QR    status     online
JobId 3: QR    space      805306 total, 118784 used, 8052948 avail
JobId 3: QR    inodes     288238 total, 100 used
JobId 3: QR    empty default env
JobId 3: QR
JobId 3: QR  File system /vol/vol1
JobId 3: QR    physdev
JobId 3: QR    unsupported 0x0
JobId 3: QR    type       WAFL
JobId 3: QR    status     online
JobId 3: QR    space      8589938 total, 6594560 used, 858334 avail
JobId 3: QR    inodes     307450 total, 1703 used
JobId 3: QR    empty default env
JobId 3: QR
...

The NetApp master configuration file is located by default in /vol/vol0/etc. If the complete NAS setup should be restorable from scratch, the directory /vol/vol0/etc must be included in the backup FileSet.

The type=config option can also be used to check the Network configuration and the connection information between the Bacula Enterprise NDMP Plugin and the NAS. If this backup job is not successful, check the configuration, in particular network and firewall related, and the access password.