Discover assets

NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center discovers all the NFS export, SMB shares, file systems, and snapshots. MASTER and SNAPSHOT are the two types of data sets for file systems.

NetBackup Snapshot Manager discovers all the file systems of type MASTER and its' snapshots type SNAPSHOT and snapshot depth is one.

NetBackup Snapshot Manager also discovers all NFS export and SMB shares of all file systems of type MASTER.

Create snapshot

To create a snapshot, NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center initiates a POST Rest API with the required information and snapshot name. The API returns the details of the snapshot. All these snapshots are created at a file system level.

A typical snapshot created has the following naming convention: NB<unique_30digit_number>

Export snapshot

When a snapshot export operation is initiated, a new NFS export or SMB share is created over the same file system snapshot.

The file system path where the backup hosts are added as clients with read-only permissions.

Restore snapshot

Snapshot Manager for Data Center does not support restore operation.

Deport snapshot

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

Delete snapshot

To delete a snapshot, NetBackupSnapshot Manager for Data Center initiates a Delete Rest API call with the required snapshot details. Then Snapshot Manager for Data Center confirms that the snapshot has been deleted successfully.