Dynamic data streaming for D-NAS workloads

You can perform an off-host backup of NAS volumes, where a volume is backed up using multiple dynamic data streams.

Each NAS volume or share is read over NFS and backed up using a configured number of backup streams. Files of these NAS volumes or shares are optimally distributed across streams to realize the full potential of backup streams. Using a single policy you can only protect assets for a single vendor.

Dynamic streaming is built on the NetBackup client framework and uses the NAS-Data-Protection policy type for snapshot and backup orchestration. The NAS-Data-Protection policy only supports storage lifecycle policy as policy storage, snapshot and backup from snapshot as primary and secondary operations.