File Shares and Object Storage • Re: Backing up CIFS shares from NetApp

Hello Andreas.

I appreciate your detailed info. So if I understand correctly, the best way to backup CIFS shares is to create a script (let's say a NetApp PowerShell script) that:

• Creates a Flexclone of the volume

• Creates a Share to the data to be backed up

(Allows Veeam to do the backup)
Then engage another script that:

• Removes the Share

• Removes the Flexclone

Is that the gist of it?

For my question about Cdot vs SVM, Let's say we have 5 different SVM's, but only 2 of them are CIFS servers. If I give Veeam Cdot access, it will allow Veeam to see everything (including the 3 SVM's we don't want to backup or touch). If I give it SVM access, then it looks like I have to add a NetApp account with the SVM permissions required by Veeam for SVM access for each SVM (meaning 2 separate NetApp accounts so each has SVM access.

I hope that clears up my questions a bit more.

Statistics: Posted by HenryA — Aug 06, 2024 1:12 pm

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