Hi Florian

The short answer is no.

What the cloud-backup as you call it, does, it to move “older” datablocks to an S3 target or it can move blocks in your snapshots.

So the information of where the blocks are stored is still in the original volume, and you need to back that information up either by SnapMirror/Vault or an NDMP dump.

Also, if you plan using anything else than another ONTAP or StorageGRID, you will need to buy license…

If you do not have another NetApp system to SnapMirror to, I would look into NDMP backup as an option…  it is supported by most backup products like BackupExec etc…

/Heino

Fra: Florian Schmid <fschmid@ubimet.com>
Dato: mandag, 28. november 2022 kl. 14.45
Til: toasters@teaparty.net <toasters@teaparty.net>
Emne: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage

Hi there, I wanted to ask, if someone knows or has this done already, if you can backup your on premise NetApp Ontap volumes to a 3rd party S3 storage. As far as I understand this so called "cloud-backup", it can send snapshot diffs (block based) to a S3 storage like AWS or on-premise StorageGrid nodes. But would this also work to 3rd party S3 storage tools like minIO? Let's image we have a huge on-premise S3 storage running minIO or what ever vendor, can I use this also as a target for my Ontap volume backup? NetApp itself is only mentioning 3rd party S3 storage for tiering, but not for backup. If this is not possible, is there another possibility to backup volume snapshot diffs to a non netapp storage? It must be block based and not file based backup. Best regards Florian