You must ensure that tape drives are reserved for use by backup applications for NDMP backup operations.
About this task
The reservation settings vary in different backup applications, and these settings must match the backup application and the nodes or servers using the same drives. See the vendor documentation of the backup application for the correct reservation settings.
- Enable reservations by using the options -option-name tape.reservations -option-value persistent command.
Example
The following command enables reservations with the
persistent value:
cluster1::> options -option-name tape.reservations -option-value persistent
2 entries were modified.
- Verify that reservations are enabled on all nodes by using the options tape.reservations command, and then review the output.
Example
cluster1::> options tape.reservations
cluster1-1
tape.reservations persistent
cluster1-2
tape.reservations persistent
2 entries were displayed.