Re: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage

Greetings,
Can someone please clarify this for me? My understanding is that cloud
backup is just scheduling the snap diff v3 to object storage.  You could
get similar functionality by any vendor that netapp approves, of which I
believe there are 4 others?

I tried getting licenses to try this on premise to ontap s3 and was
immediately turned away. It’s super unclear how netapp intends to position
this cloud. Has anyone been able to try the inbuilt backup to an ontap or
grid target?

On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 9:11 AM Heino Walther <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Florian
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> The short answer is no.
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> What the cloud-backup as you call it, does, it to move “older” datablocks
> to an S3 target or it can move blocks in your snapshots.
>
> So the information of where the blocks are stored is still in the original
> volume, and you need to back that information up either by SnapMirror/Vault
> or an NDMP dump.
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> Also, if you plan using anything else than another ONTAP or StorageGRID,
> you will need to buy license…
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> If you do not have another NetApp system to SnapMirror to, I would look
> into NDMP backup as an option…  it is supported by most backup products
> like BackupExec etc…
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> /Heino
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> *Fra: *Florian Schmid <[email protected]>
> *Dato: *mandag, 28. november 2022 kl. 14.45
> *Til: *[email protected] <[email protected]>
> *Emne: *NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
>
> Hi there, I wanted to ask, if someone knows or has this done already, if
> you can backup your on premise NetApp Ontap volumes to a 3rd party S3
> storage. As far as I understand this so called "cloud-backup", it can send
> snapshot diffs (block based) to a S3 storage like AWS or on-premise
> StorageGrid nodes. But would this also work to 3rd party S3 storage tools
> like minIO? Let's image we have a huge on-premise S3 storage running minIO
> or what ever vendor, can I use this also as a target for my Ontap volume
> backup? NetApp itself is only mentioning 3rd party S3 storage for tiering,
> but not for backup. If this is not possible, is there another possibility
> to backup volume snapshot diffs to a non netapp storage? It must be block
> based and not file based backup. Best regards Florian
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