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Netapp Admin guide : Basics Print E-mail
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Written by geekyB   
Tuesday, 13 January 2009 08:14

This GeekyFacts Netapp beginner guide has details about basic Netapp commands and an example to explain each command.

How to find Data Ontap version on a filer :

geekyFiler> version
NetApp Release 7.3P3: Wed Sep 17 22:29:32 PDT 2008

How to find "uptime" of a filer?

The uptime command gives system uptime, similar to Unix. Also it gives number of NFS, CIFS, FCP, iSCSI operations on a Netapp filer.
geekyFiler*> uptime
  8:58pm up 23 days, 43 mins, 1354234 NFS ops, 940 CIFS ops, 0 HTTP ops, 0 FCP ops, 0 iSCSI ops
geekyFiler*>
Last Updated on Tuesday, 13 January 2009 08:25
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Netapp - How to disable snapshot for a volume Print E-mail
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Written by geekyS   
Tuesday, 06 January 2009 06:39

Perform the following steps to disable automatic snapshot for a volume, 

 

Disable the snapshot schedule for the volume 

Below command will disable the snapshot schedule for the volume "testvol"

filer > snap sched testvol
Volume testvol: 2 4 8@2,4,6,12,16

filer >  snap sched testvol 0 0 0
filer > snap sched testvol
Volume testvol: 0 0 0

Last Updated on Tuesday, 06 January 2009 07:53
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Netapp Snapvault guide Print E-mail
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Written by geekyB   
Monday, 22 December 2008 07:04

Netapp SnapVault is a heterogeneous disk-to-disk backup solution for Netapp filers and heterogeneous OS systems (Windows, Linux , Solaris, HPUX and AIX). Basically, Snapvault uses Snapshot technology to store online backups. In event of data loss or corruption on a filer, the backup data can be restored from the SnapVault filer with less downtime. It has significant advantages over traditional tape backups, like

  • Media cost savings
  • Reduce backup windows versus traditional tape-based backup
  • No backup/recovery failures due to media errors
  • Simple and Fast recovery of corrupted or destroyed data


Snapvault consists of major two entities –  snapvault clients and a snapvault storage server. A snapvault client (Netapp filers and unix/windows servers) is the system whose data should be backed-up.  The SnapVault server is a Netapp filer – which gets the data from clients and backs up data.

Last Updated on Tuesday, 23 December 2008 03:28
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