How to use ndmpcopy

You can migrate data from the source volume to a destination volume on the
same storage system or to a different destination volume on a remote host. You
can also migrate data from a source volume on a remote host to a destination
volume on the same host or to a destination volume on a remote host.
In these examples, netapp1 is used for a local storage system and netapp2 and
netapp3 are used for remote storage systems. If you specify host names when
you use the ndmpcopy command, the storage systemrunning the ndmpcopy
command should be able to resolve these names to their IP addresses.
Example of migrating data from a source path to a different destination
path on the same storage system
This sample command migrates data from a source path (source_path) to a
different destination path (destination_path) on the same storage system
(netapp1).
netapp1>ndmpcopy -sa username:password -da username:password
netapp1:/vol/vol0/source_path netapp1:/vol/vol0/destination_path
The following shorter form of the command achieves the same purpose:
netapp1>ndmpcopy /vol/vol0/source_path /vol/vol0/destination_path
Because you are running the ndmpcopy command on netapp1 and the source
and destination storage system are the same as netapp1, you can omit the
source and destination storage system names on the ndmpcopy command line.
When your ndmpcopy command is running on the same storage system as the
source storage system or destination storage system, you can also omit the -sa
or -da options.
Example of migrating data from a source path to a different destination
path on a remote host
This sample command migrates data from a source path (source_path) to a
different destination path (destination_path) on netapp2.
netapp1>ndmpcopy -da username:password /vol/vol0/source_path
netapp2:/vol/vol0/destination_path
The destination storage system must be specified in this case, because it is a
remote storage system. The destination authorization is needed, but not the
source authorization.
Example of migrating data from a source path on remote host to a
destination path on the local storage system
This sample command migrates data from a source path (source_path) on
netapp3 to a destination path (destination_path) on netapp1.
netapp1>ndmpcopy -sa username:password -st text
netapp3:/vol/vol0/source_path /vol/vol0/destination_path

The source authentication type specified by -st is text. The ndmpcopy command
tool running on netapp1 will authenticate with the source storage system by
using text authentication.
Example of migrating data from a source path on a remote host to a
destination path on another remote host
This sample command migrates data from a source path (source_path) on
netapp2 to a destination path (destination_path) on netapp3.
netapp1>ndmpcopy -sa username:password -da username:password -l 1
netapp2:/vol/vol0/source_path netapp3:/vol/vol0/destination_path
The -l 1 option is used to do a level 1 transfer.
Example of overwriting the /etc directory during the root volume
migration
Without the -f option, the /etc directory and its contents on the root volume of
netapp2 are protected from being overwritten with the/etc directory from
netapp1. This helps prevent unintentional changing of the system characteristics
after the root volume migration is completed.
netapp1>ndmpcopy -da username:password /vol/rootvol netapp2:/vol/rootvol
To intentionally overwrite the/etc directory during the root volume migration, use
the -f flag as shown in the following example.
netapp1>ndmpcopy -da username:password -f /vol/rootvol netapp2:/vol/rootvol
Example of the ndmpcopy command where the address modes are
explicitly set to IPv6
This sample command explicitly sets the control connections and the data
connection to use IPv6 address mode. In this command netapp2 is the host name
that resolves to an IPv6 address.
netapp1>ndmpcopy -sa username:password -da username:password -l 0 -mcs
inet6 -mcd inet6 -md inet6 netapp2:/vol/vol0/source_path
[2001:0db8::10]:/vol/vol0/destination_path