Discover assets

Snapshot Manager for Data Center discovers all the Qumulo file system paths and their snapshots, along with some of their metadata. Single-depth discovery is supported.

For example, if the file system directories are [/home, /home/user1, /home/user2, /user1], then the discovered file system is [/home, /user1].

Create snapshot

To create a snapshot, Snapshot Manager for Data Center initiates an SDK method with the required information and snapshot name. The API returns the details of the snapshot.

A typical snapshot created by Snapshot Manager for Data Center has the following naming convention:

NB<unique_21digit_number>

Delete snapshot

To delete a snapshot, Snapshot Manager for Data Center initiates an SDK method call with the required snapshot details. Then Snapshot Manager for Data Center confirms that the snapshot has been deleted successfully on the cluster.

Restore snapshot

Snapshot Manager for Data Center does not support this operation.

Export snapshot

When NetBackup exports a snapshot, a new NFS export is created over the same file system path on which the backup host is added as a client with read-only permission.

Deport snapshot

When a snapshot deport operation is initiated, Snapshot Manager for Data Center deletes the NFS export created over the snapshot path at the time of the export operation.

Create snapshot diff

Snapshot Manager for Data Center does not support this operation.