You are right, snapdiff it self is not NDMP, but rather the way ONTAP finds the changed files on the system in a quick way…

But you would normally use the NDMP protocol to get data out of your system, or else you will have to mount it on your backup server as a NFS/CIFS share and back it up like that… which is typically slow compared to NDMP.

/Heino

Fra: Basil <basilberntsen@gmail.com>
Dato: lørdag, 10. april 2021 kl. 12.56
Til: Heino Walther <hw@beardmann.dk>
Cc: Brian Parent <bparent@ucsd.edu>, toasters@teaparty.net <toasters@teaparty.net>
Emne: Re:

Snapdiff is new actually- not NDMP. I am experiencing a bug in gmail on ios so I can’t paste the link but the first Google result for netapp ndmp snapdiff is the blog post explaining it :)

On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 6:36 AM Heino Walther <hw@beardmann.dk> wrote:

As fas as I can remember snapdiff is using NDMP which should be a standard and open protocol, but NetApp, EMC and others have made their specific changes to their version of NDMP which basically make them not interchangeable.

So I guess you will need a NetApp controller in order to restore your data.

There is a slim chance that files can be restored to other NDMP devices (CIFS or NFS), but LUNs are required to be restored to a NDMP.

You can either just keep a NetApp controller ready for this (with no service on it) or maybe just setup an ONTAP Select virtual instance in vSphere which you will be able to restore to, and it’s not as expensive and a NetApp Hardware box.

/Heino

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Dato: lørdag, 10. april 2021 kl. 02.12
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