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  3. NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Data Center Administrator's Guide
  5. Storage array plug-ins for Snapshot Manager for Data Center
  7. Azure NetApp Files plug-in
  9. Supported Snapshot Manager for Data Center Operation on Azure NetApp Files
NetBackup™ Snapshot Manager for Data Center Administrator's Guide

Supported Snapshot Manager for Data Center Operation on Azure NetApp Files

You can perform the following Snapshot Manager for Data Center operations supported on the Azure NetApp Files:

Table: Snapshot Manager for Data Center operations on the Azure NetApp Files

Snapshot Manager for Data Center operations

Description

Discover assets

Snapshot Manager for Data Center discovers all the volumes and snapshots. Volumes are primary assets, each contains the associated snapshots and asset IDs.

Create snapshot

Snapshot Manager for Data Centertakes a snapshot of Azure NetApp Files volume.

Snapshot Manager for Data Centertriggers a POST API call on the volume to create a snapshot.

A snapshot created with the following naming convention: NB<unique_21digit_number>

Delete snapshot

To delete a volume or consistency group snapshot, Snapshot Manager for Data Center initiates a DELETE Rest API call with the required snapshot details.

Snapshot Manager for Data Center deletes a snapshot. When the delete snapshot operation is triggered, Snapshot Manager for Data Center deletes the snapshot corresponding to the source volume.

Restore snapshot

Restore is not supported on Azure NetApp Files.

Export snapshot

When a snapshot export operation is triggered, Snapshot Manager for Data Center does the following operation based on the protocol of the volume

  • NFS - NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center create (or modifies) the export policy rule of the source volume and add NBU clients with read only access.

  • SMB - NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center relies on the user configured with NetBackup services to have read access to the source volume snapshot.

Deport snapshot

When a snapshot deport operation is triggered, Snapshot Manager for Data Center deletes the NBU clients added to the export policy rules. It is the revert of the export operation.

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