NDMP SDK v2 Contents

Objective:

The NDMP developers kit provides a functional (although fairly basic) implementation of an NDMP client and NDMP server. The objective of the developers kit is to facilitate rapid development of NDMP compliant clients and servers on a variety of platforms.

The kit contains the following pieces:

Server

• NDMP server implementation.
  • Connect interface
  • Config interface
  • SCSI interface
  • Tape interface
  • Mover Interface
  • Data interface
  • Notify interface
  • Log interface
  • File history interface
• Implementation notes:
  • Backup/recover module API

Client

• NDMP client implementation.
  • The client is implemented as an interactive Tcl application.
  • The Tcl command 'help' will display a list of all NDMP Tcl commands.
  • The client/scripts directory contains various Tcl and expect scripts that demonstrate usage of the client application.

Common

• NDMP communication library used by both the NDMP server and client implementations.

Doc

• Various documents related to the NDMP protocol and the developers kit.

Requirements:

1. The code was developed and tested on a Sun workstation running Solaris 2.5.
2. The code was compiled using gcc 2.7.2.
3. The NDMP client utilizes Tcl 7.6.
4. Some of the test scripts in client/scripts require expect 5.21.