Umm, with ONTAP 9.9.1 and later there is SnapMIrror Cloud.
https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/task_dp_back_up_to_cloud.html#add-a-cloud-object-store
So, yes, you can backup a FlexVol to S3, but the target appears to be limited to ONTAP S3 or StorageGRID at the moment.
Wayne
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Please note, that S3 SnapMirror cannot snapmirror a FlexVol, but only your S3 buckets located on your ONTAP Filer…
There is no way to backup a FlexVol (and restore it as a FlexVol) other than with SnapMirror/Vault or NDMP.
…and there most likely never will be
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Emne: Re: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
No, that's FabricPool/cloud tiering. (older blocks, needing license for non-NetApp)
SnapMirror S3 is what Florian is referring to.
"In addition, unlike standard SnapMirror,
S3 SnapMirror can have non-NetApp destinations."
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So far, looks like there may be a limited number of non-NetApp targets supported (perhaps just AWS S3) but that list likely will grow.
You can also leverage 3rd party like Cleondris for index:
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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
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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