Discover assets

NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center discovers all the PowerMax Data movers, NFS exports, SMB shares, and their file system snapshots.

NetBackup Snapshot Manager also discovers all the nested NFS exports and SMB shares, irrespective of the depth at which they are created.

Create snapshot.

To create a snapshot, NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center initiates a POST XML API method with the required information and snapshot name.

The API returns the details of the snapshot. All these snapshots are at the file system level. A typical snapshot created by NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center has the following naming convention:

NB<unique_21digit_number>

Restore snapshot

NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center does not support PIT restore operations on the array. Instead, we can perform the normal restore on the specified location.

Export snapshot

NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center supports export operations using the NFS and SMB protocols. When a snapshot export operation is initiated based on the NFS export or SMB, the share export path is created using the snapshot name, and then the details are sent to NetBackup. Then, the host access configuration is added as read-only on the newly created export/share.

Following are the snapshot export paths:

Deport snapshot

When a snapshot deport operation is initiated, Snapshot Manager for Data Center makes a POST XML API call to the PowerMax eNAS array to remove the host access configurations entry that was added during the export operation.

Delete snapshot

To delete a snapshot, NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center initiates a POST XML API call with the required snapshot details.

Then, it confirms that the snapshot was successfully deleted from the array.