Open Systems SnapVault Best Practices

The Open Systems SnapVault (OSSV) primary agent has extended the reach of NetApp SnapVault technology to the open systems server. OSSV facilitates block-level incremental transfers from the open systems platform directly to a secondary storage system. Various data sets can now be maintained remotely on a common NetApp storage system with or without the NearStore® license.

Open Systems SnapVault is a heterogeneous disk-to-disk data protection solution that is ideal for use with NetApp storage systems. An OSSV primary system corresponds to a backup client in the traditional backup architecture. The SnapVault secondary is always a data storage system running Data ONTAP®. OSSV software protects data residing on a primary, which can be a storage system from a server running an operating system from leading server vendors such as Solaris™, HP-UX, AIX, Windows, VMware® ESX, and Linux®.

Three main components are installed in the OSSV environment:

• The primary system
• The OSSV agent residing on the primary system
• The secondary system

There are two phases to the OSSV backup mechanism:

• Phase 1: File system scan on primary and directory structure built on secondary
• Phase 2: Actual data set transfer

Install the OSSV package in windows server. This windows server act as a primary server (Which data needs to take a backup).

Accept the EULA.

Specify the NDMP user name and password.

Listening Port Number.

Specify the Secondary NetApp Filer hostname or IPaddress.

Select the snapvault agent installation folder.

Select yes to manage this host agent through DFM.

Installation is in progress.

Now successfully OSSV installed in windows server.

Setup the intial configuration using the snapvault configurator.

Check the snapvault status in windows server.

To start the snapvault backup using snapvault start command in secondary netapp filer.

Now check with the snapvault status.

It started the Base Line Transfer to the destination.

Now successfully transferred the base line transfer.

Now you can list the source file (the data from the source).

Check the snapvault status in Windows server.

For testing, delete the source in windows server.

The source folder, ossvbackup successfully deleted.

Now restore using snapvault restore command in windows server.

Now successfully restored.