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
No, that's FabricPool/cloud tiering. (older blocks, needing license for non-NetApp)
SnapMirror S3 is what Florian is referring to.
https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html
"In addition, unlike standard SnapMirror, S3 SnapMirror can have non-NetApp destinations." [https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/images/logo-tophat-social.png]https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html S3 SnapMirror overview - NetApphttps://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html Beginning with ONTAP 9.10.1, you can protect buckets in ONTAP S3 object stores using familiar SnapMirror mirroring and backup functionality docs.netapp.com 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:
https://www.cleondris.com/en/snapmirror-cloud.xhtml Cleondris: SnapMirror Cloudhttps://www.cleondris.com/en/snapmirror-cloud.xhtml Cleondris and NetApp are pleased to announce availability of SnapMirror Cloud support in the Cleondris Data Manager product. Cleondris orchestrates and manages backup and recovery of data on NetApp ONTAP systems directly to Object storage (S3) leveraging NetApp's SnapMirror Cloud technology.. Due to is its deep integration with ONTAP APIs, Cleondris is able to backup data from ONTAP using the ... www.cleondris.com
________________________________ From: Toasters toasters-bounces@teaparty.net on behalf of Heino Walther hw@beardmann.dk Sent: Monday, November 28, 2022 9:03 AM To: Florian Schmid fschmid@ubimet.com; toasters@teaparty.net toasters@teaparty.net Subject: SV: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
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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
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
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 😊
/Heino
Fra: Parisi, Justin Justin.Parisi@netapp.com Dato: mandag, 28. november 2022 kl. 15.32 Til: Heino Walther hw@beardmann.dk, Florian Schmid fschmid@ubimet.com, toasters@teaparty.net toasters@teaparty.net 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.
https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html
"In addition, unlike standard SnapMirror, S3 SnapMirror can have non-NetApp destinations." [https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/images/logo-tophat-social.png]https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html S3 SnapMirror overview - NetApphttps://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html Beginning with ONTAP 9.10.1, you can protect buckets in ONTAP S3 object stores using familiar SnapMirror mirroring and backup functionality docs.netapp.com 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:
https://www.cleondris.com/en/snapmirror-cloud.xhtml Cleondris: SnapMirror Cloudhttps://www.cleondris.com/en/snapmirror-cloud.xhtml Cleondris and NetApp are pleased to announce availability of SnapMirror Cloud support in the Cleondris Data Manager product. Cleondris orchestrates and manages backup and recovery of data on NetApp ONTAP systems directly to Object storage (S3) leveraging NetApp's SnapMirror Cloud technology.. Due to is its deep integration with ONTAP APIs, Cleondris is able to backup data from ONTAP using the ... www.cleondris.com
________________________________ From: Toasters toasters-bounces@teaparty.net on behalf of Heino Walther hw@beardmann.dk Sent: Monday, November 28, 2022 9:03 AM To: Florian Schmid fschmid@ubimet.com; toasters@teaparty.net toasters@teaparty.net Subject: SV: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
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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
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
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-clou...
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
From: Toasters toasters-bounces@teaparty.net On Behalf Of Heino Walther Sent: Monday, November 28, 2022 8:02 AM To: Parisi, Justin Justin.Parisi@netapp.com; Florian Schmid fschmid@ubimet.com; toasters@teaparty.net Subject: SV: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
ATTENTION: This email originated outside of Shaw. Do not click links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Immediately report suspicious emails using the Phish Alert Report button. 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 😊
/Heino
Fra: Parisi, Justin <Justin.Parisi@netapp.commailto:Justin.Parisi@netapp.com> Dato: mandag, 28. november 2022 kl. 15.32 Til: Heino Walther <hw@beardmann.dkmailto:hw@beardmann.dk>, Florian Schmid <fschmid@ubimet.commailto:fschmid@ubimet.com>, toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net <toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net> 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.
https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html
"In addition, unlike standard SnapMirror, S3 SnapMirror can have non-NetApp destinations." [https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/images/logo-tophat-social.png]https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html S3 SnapMirror overview - NetApphttps://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html Beginning with ONTAP 9.10.1, you can protect buckets in ONTAP S3 object stores using familiar SnapMirror mirroring and backup functionality docs.netapp.com 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:
https://www.cleondris.com/en/snapmirror-cloud.xhtml Cleondris: SnapMirror Cloudhttps://www.cleondris.com/en/snapmirror-cloud.xhtml Cleondris and NetApp are pleased to announce availability of SnapMirror Cloud support in the Cleondris Data Manager product. Cleondris orchestrates and manages backup and recovery of data on NetApp ONTAP systems directly to Object storage (S3) leveraging NetApp's SnapMirror Cloud technology.. Due to is its deep integration with ONTAP APIs, Cleondris is able to backup data from ONTAP using the ... www.cleondris.comhttp://www.cleondris.com
________________________________ From: Toasters <toasters-bounces@teaparty.netmailto:toasters-bounces@teaparty.net> on behalf of Heino Walther <hw@beardmann.dkmailto:hw@beardmann.dk> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2022 9:03 AM To: Florian Schmid <fschmid@ubimet.commailto:fschmid@ubimet.com>; toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net <toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net> Subject: SV: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
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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
Fra: Florian Schmid <fschmid@ubimet.commailto:fschmid@ubimet.com> Dato: mandag, 28. november 2022 kl. 14.45 Til: toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net <toasters@teaparty.netmailto: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
Hi there,
wow, thank you very much for all your help!
Yes, I'm now more confused than before, but please let me summarize all of your statements in my words:
* CBS is a solution to backup non S3 local NetApp volumes (flex vols) to Cloud providers or StorageGrid? * S3 Snampmirror is only for S3 storage to S3 storage, example on-prem Ontap can also have S3 object storage and this I could sync to AWS S3 for example * NetApp Cloud backup is somehow quite new and should compete with 3rd party backup vendors to use NetApp built in backup features to backup to cloud storage or on-prem storage-grid * there will be in future maybe different backup targets, but not for now * Snapdiff v3 is the only remaining snapdiff version and with this, I could do backup snapshot diffs block wise? * Only a few 3rd party backup solutions are supporting this, but those can be used to fully backup an on-prem NetApp Ontap cluster and its volumes * NDMP is quite old and can I do with this differential backups of NetApp volumes using snapshots? * Should snapdiff v3 replace this? * Best way to backup an on-prem NetApp Ontap Cluster would be a second NetApp cluster using snapmirror / snapvault
As I understand this correctly, if I want to backup a NetApp Ontap Cluster with only flex volumes, I can use another NetApp with snapmirror, or a NetApp StorageGrid, or some special 3rd party backup solutions, which support snapdiff v3?
Sorry for so much questions, but this is not easy to understand all the possibilities.
Best regards, Florian
Von: "Wayne McCormick" Wayne.McCormick@sjrb.ca An: "Heino Walther" hw@beardmann.dk, "Justin Parisi" Justin.Parisi@netapp.com, "Florian Schmid" fschmid@ubimet.com, "toasters" toasters@teaparty.net Gesendet: Montag, 28. November 2022 17:39:16 Betreff: RE: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
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-clou... | https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/task_dp_back_up_to_cloud.html#add-a-clou... ]
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
From: Toasters toasters-bounces@teaparty.net On Behalf Of Heino Walther Sent: Monday, November 28, 2022 8:02 AM To: Parisi, Justin Justin.Parisi@netapp.com; Florian Schmid fschmid@ubimet.com; toasters@teaparty.net Subject: SV: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
ATTENTION: This email originated outside of Shaw. Do not click links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Immediately report suspicious emails using the Phish Alert Report button .
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
/Heino
Fra: Parisi, Justin < [ mailto:Justin.Parisi@netapp.com | Justin.Parisi@netapp.com ] > Dato: mandag, 28. november 2022 kl. 15.32 Til: Heino Walther < [ mailto:hw@beardmann.dk | hw@beardmann.dk ] >, Florian Schmid < [ mailto:fschmid@ubimet.com | fschmid@ubimet.com ] >, [ mailto:toasters@teaparty.net | toasters@teaparty.net ] < [ mailto:toasters@teaparty.net | toasters@teaparty.net ] > 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.
[ https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html | https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html ]
" In addition, unlike standard SnapMirror, S3 SnapMirror can have non-NetApp destinations."
[ https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html ]
[ https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html | S3 SnapMirror overview - NetApp ]
Beginning with ONTAP 9.10.1, you can protect buckets in ONTAP S3 object stores using familiar SnapMirror mirroring and backup functionality
docs.netapp.com
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 3 rd party like Cleondris for index:
[ https://www.cleondris.com/en/snapmirror-cloud.xhtml | https://www.cleondris.com/en/snapmirror-cloud.xhtml ]
[ https://www.cleondris.com/en/snapmirror-cloud.xhtml | Cleondris: SnapMirror Cloud ]
Cleondris and NetApp are pleased to announce availability of SnapMirror Cloud support in the Cleondris Data Manager product. Cleondris orchestrates and manages backup and recovery of data on NetApp ONTAP systems directly to Object storage (S3) leveraging NetApp's SnapMirror Cloud technology.. Due to is its deep integration with ONTAP APIs, Cleondris is able to backup data from ONTAP using the ...
[ http://www.cleondris.com/ | www.cleondris.com ]
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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
Fra: Florian Schmid < [ mailto:fschmid@ubimet.com | fschmid@ubimet.com ] > Dato: mandag, 28. november 2022 kl. 14.45 Til: [ mailto:toasters@teaparty.net | toasters@teaparty.net ] < [ mailto: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
Hi Florian,
we’re using the Darksite version of the tool in production for some customers. It works as you would expect it to work, no public cloud involved (if you don’t want to). The backend on our end is also a StorageGrid S3 but it should work with others, job orchestration happens in the Cloud Manager locally on your end and it connects to the source filer and the destination system and the traffic is not running through the appliance. There are some caveats as to what you can and cannot do and what features of the S3 backend are supported (lifecycle policies are problematic, f.ex.).
We’ve run through quite some big projects on that so far and it’s not always the best solution… Can you maybe describe your exact usecase?
Best,
Alexander Griesser Head of Systems Operations
ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH
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Von: Florian Schmid fschmid@ubimet.com Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. November 2022 12:13 An: toasters toasters@teaparty.net Betreff: Re: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
Hi there,
wow, thank you very much for all your help!
Yes, I'm now more confused than before, but please let me summarize all of your statements in my words:
* CBS is a solution to backup non S3 local NetApp volumes (flex vols) to Cloud providers or StorageGrid? * S3 Snampmirror is only for S3 storage to S3 storage, example on-prem Ontap can also have S3 object storage and this I could sync to AWS S3 for example * NetApp Cloud backup is somehow quite new and should compete with 3rd party backup vendors to use NetApp built in backup features to backup to cloud storage or on-prem storage-grid
* there will be in future maybe different backup targets, but not for now
* Snapdiff v3 is the only remaining snapdiff version and with this, I could do backup snapshot diffs block wise?
* Only a few 3rd party backup solutions are supporting this, but those can be used to fully backup an on-prem NetApp Ontap cluster and its volumes
* NDMP is quite old and can I do with this differential backups of NetApp volumes using snapshots?
* Should snapdiff v3 replace this?
* Best way to backup an on-prem NetApp Ontap Cluster would be a second NetApp cluster using snapmirror / snapvault
As I understand this correctly, if I want to backup a NetApp Ontap Cluster with only flex volumes, I can use another NetApp with snapmirror, or a NetApp StorageGrid, or some special 3rd party backup solutions, which support snapdiff v3?
Sorry for so much questions, but this is not easy to understand all the possibilities.
Best regards, Florian
________________________________ Von: "Wayne McCormick" Wayne.McCormick@sjrb.ca An: "Heino Walther" hw@beardmann.dk, "Justin Parisi" Justin.Parisi@netapp.com, "Florian Schmid" fschmid@ubimet.com, "toasters" toasters@teaparty.net Gesendet: Montag, 28. November 2022 17:39:16 Betreff: RE: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
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-clou...
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
From: Toasters toasters-bounces@teaparty.net On Behalf Of Heino Walther Sent: Monday, November 28, 2022 8:02 AM To: Parisi, Justin Justin.Parisi@netapp.com; Florian Schmid fschmid@ubimet.com; toasters@teaparty.net Subject: SV: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
ATTENTION: This email originated outside of Shaw. Do not click links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Immediately report suspicious emails using the Phish Alert Report button. 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
/Heino
Fra: Parisi, Justin <Justin.Parisi@netapp.commailto:Justin.Parisi@netapp.com> Dato: mandag, 28. november 2022 kl. 15.32 Til: Heino Walther <hw@beardmann.dkmailto:hw@beardmann.dk>, Florian Schmid <fschmid@ubimet.commailto:fschmid@ubimet.com>, toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net <toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net> 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.
https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html
"In addition, unlike standard SnapMirror, S3 SnapMirror can have non-NetApp destinations." [Das Bild wurde vom Absender entfernt.]https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html
S3 SnapMirror overview - NetApphttps://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html Beginning with ONTAP 9.10.1, you can protect buckets in ONTAP S3 object stores using familiar SnapMirror mirroring and backup functionality docs.netapp.com
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:
https://www.cleondris.com/en/snapmirror-cloud.xhtml Cleondris: SnapMirror Cloudhttps://www.cleondris.com/en/snapmirror-cloud.xhtml Cleondris and NetApp are pleased to announce availability of SnapMirror Cloud support in the Cleondris Data Manager product. Cleondris orchestrates and manages backup and recovery of data on NetApp ONTAP systems directly to Object storage (S3) leveraging NetApp's SnapMirror Cloud technology.. Due to is its deep integration with ONTAP APIs, Cleondris is able to backup data from ONTAP using the ... www.cleondris.comhttp://www.cleondris.com
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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
Fra: Florian Schmid <fschmid@ubimet.commailto:fschmid@ubimet.com> Dato: mandag, 28. november 2022 kl. 14.45 Til: toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net <toasters@teaparty.netmailto: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
Hi Alexander,
thank you very much for your answer.
What we want to achieve is at least a backup for our production NetApp Cluster and if possible, to move some volumes of the cluster, not to fill it up too much with things that don't need to run on flash storage.
Best regards, Florian
Von: "Alexander Griesser" AGriesser@anexia-it.com An: "Florian Schmid" fschmid@ubimet.com, "toasters" toasters@teaparty.net Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. November 2022 13:27:14 Betreff: AW: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
Hi Florian,
we’re using the Darksite version of the tool in production for some customers. It works as you would expect it to work, no public cloud involved (if you don’t want to). The backend on our end is also a StorageGrid S3 but it should work with others, job orchestration happens in the Cloud Manager locally on your end and it connects to the source filer and the destination system and the traffic is not running through the appliance.
There are some caveats as to what you can and cannot do and what features of the S3 backend are supported (lifecycle policies are problematic, f.ex.).
We’ve run through quite some big projects on that so far and it’s not always the best solution…
Can you maybe describe your exact usecase?
Best,
Alexander Griesser
Head of Systems Operations
ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH
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Von: Florian Schmid fschmid@ubimet.com Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. November 2022 12:13 An: toasters toasters@teaparty.net Betreff: Re: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
Hi there,
wow, thank you very much for all your help!
Yes, I'm now more confused than before, but please let me summarize all of your statements in my words:
* CBS is a solution to backup non S3 local NetApp volumes (flex vols) to Cloud providers or StorageGrid? * S3 Snampmirror is only for S3 storage to S3 storage, example on-prem Ontap can also have S3 object storage and this I could sync to AWS S3 for example * NetApp Cloud backup is somehow quite new and should compete with 3rd party backup vendors to use NetApp built in backup features to backup to cloud storage or on-prem storage-grid
* there will be in future maybe different backup targets, but not for now
* Snapdiff v3 is the only remaining snapdiff version and with this, I could do backup snapshot diffs block wise?
* Only a few 3rd party backup solutions are supporting this, but those can be used to fully backup an on-prem NetApp Ontap cluster and its volumes
* NDMP is quite old and can I do with this differential backups of NetApp volumes using snapshots?
* Should snapdiff v3 replace this?
* Best way to backup an on-prem NetApp Ontap Cluster would be a second NetApp cluster using snapmirror / snapvault
As I understand this correctly, if I want to backup a NetApp Ontap Cluster with only flex volumes, I can use another NetApp with snapmirror, or a NetApp StorageGrid, or some special 3rd party backup solutions, which support snapdiff v3?
Sorry for so much questions, but this is not easy to understand all the possibilities.
Best regards,
Florian
Von: "Wayne McCormick" Wayne.McCormick@sjrb.ca An: "Heino Walther" hw@beardmann.dk, "Justin Parisi" Justin.Parisi@netapp.com, "Florian Schmid" fschmid@ubimet.com, "toasters" toasters@teaparty.net Gesendet: Montag, 28. November 2022 17:39:16 Betreff: RE: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
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-clou... | https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/task_dp_back_up_to_cloud.html#add-a-clou... ]
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
/Heino
Fra: Parisi, Justin < [ mailto:Justin.Parisi@netapp.com | Justin.Parisi@netapp.com ] > Dato: mandag, 28. november 2022 kl. 15.32 Til: Heino Walther < [ mailto:hw@beardmann.dk | hw@beardmann.dk ] >, Florian Schmid < [ mailto:fschmid@ubimet.com | fschmid@ubimet.com ] >, [ mailto:toasters@teaparty.net | toasters@teaparty.net ] < [ mailto:toasters@teaparty.net | toasters@teaparty.net ] > 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.
[ https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html | https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html ]
" In addition, unlike standard SnapMirror, S3 SnapMirror can have non-NetApp destinations."
[ https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html ]
[ https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html | S3 SnapMirror overview - NetApp ]
Beginning with ONTAP 9.10.1, you can protect buckets in ONTAP S3 object stores using familiar SnapMirror mirroring and backup functionality
docs.netapp.com
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 3 rd party like Cleondris for index:
[ https://www.cleondris.com/en/snapmirror-cloud.xhtml | https://www.cleondris.com/en/snapmirror-cloud.xhtml ]
[ https://www.cleondris.com/en/snapmirror-cloud.xhtml | Cleondris: SnapMirror Cloud ]
Cleondris and NetApp are pleased to announce availability of SnapMirror Cloud support in the Cleondris Data Manager product. Cleondris orchestrates and manages backup and recovery of data on NetApp ONTAP systems directly to Object storage (S3) leveraging NetApp's SnapMirror Cloud technology.. Due to is its deep integration with ONTAP APIs, Cleondris is able to backup data from ONTAP using the ...
[ http://www.cleondris.com/ | www.cleondris.com ]
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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
Fra: Florian Schmid < [ mailto:fschmid@ubimet.com | fschmid@ubimet.com ] > Dato: mandag, 28. november 2022 kl. 14.45 Til: [ mailto:toasters@teaparty.net | toasters@teaparty.net ] < [ mailto: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
Hi Florian,
Let me split that up into two answers
Backup of NetApp Cluster: This is possible with the help of CloudManager. It allows you to snapvault some volumes from your NetApp cluster to an S3 target (StorageGrid, AWS…). This behaves more or less the same as a traditional snapvault from one NetApp cluster to another.
Move some volumes of the Cluster: This can be done in two ways. Either you snapvaul via CloudManager and then delete the volumes from your cluster and restore them from S3 if needed or you can use FabricPool for this. FabricPool uses an S3 Bucket as extension for your SSD Aggregate. You can define some policies on what and how data is moved to S3 to free up space on your aggregate. This link goes a little bit more into details about FabricPool https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/flexpod/hybrid-cloud/cloud-fabricpool_fabricpo...
Best Regards Markus
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From: Florian Schmid fschmid@ubimet.com Date: Tuesday, 29. November 2022 at 14:04 To: Alexander Griesser AGriesser@anexia-it.com Cc: toasters toasters@teaparty.net Subject: Re: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
Hi Alexander,
thank you very much for your answer.
What we want to achieve is at least a backup for our production NetApp Cluster and if possible, to move some volumes of the cluster, not to fill it up too much with things that don't need to run on flash storage.
Best regards, Florian
________________________________ Von: "Alexander Griesser" AGriesser@anexia-it.com An: "Florian Schmid" fschmid@ubimet.com, "toasters" toasters@teaparty.net Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. November 2022 13:27:14 Betreff: AW: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
Hi Florian,
we’re using the Darksite version of the tool in production for some customers. It works as you would expect it to work, no public cloud involved (if you don’t want to). The backend on our end is also a StorageGrid S3 but it should work with others, job orchestration happens in the Cloud Manager locally on your end and it connects to the source filer and the destination system and the traffic is not running through the appliance. There are some caveats as to what you can and cannot do and what features of the S3 backend are supported (lifecycle policies are problematic, f.ex.).
We’ve run through quite some big projects on that so far and it’s not always the best solution… Can you maybe describe your exact usecase?
Best,
Alexander Griesser Head of Systems Operations
ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH
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Von: Florian Schmid fschmid@ubimet.com Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. November 2022 12:13 An: toasters toasters@teaparty.net Betreff: Re: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
Hi there,
wow, thank you very much for all your help!
Yes, I'm now more confused than before, but please let me summarize all of your statements in my words:
* CBS is a solution to backup non S3 local NetApp volumes (flex vols) to Cloud providers or StorageGrid? * S3 Snampmirror is only for S3 storage to S3 storage, example on-prem Ontap can also have S3 object storage and this I could sync to AWS S3 for example * NetApp Cloud backup is somehow quite new and should compete with 3rd party backup vendors to use NetApp built in backup features to backup to cloud storage or on-prem storage-grid
* there will be in future maybe different backup targets, but not for now
* Snapdiff v3 is the only remaining snapdiff version and with this, I could do backup snapshot diffs block wise?
* Only a few 3rd party backup solutions are supporting this, but those can be used to fully backup an on-prem NetApp Ontap cluster and its volumes
* NDMP is quite old and can I do with this differential backups of NetApp volumes using snapshots?
* Should snapdiff v3 replace this?
* Best way to backup an on-prem NetApp Ontap Cluster would be a second NetApp cluster using snapmirror / snapvault
As I understand this correctly, if I want to backup a NetApp Ontap Cluster with only flex volumes, I can use another NetApp with snapmirror, or a NetApp StorageGrid, or some special 3rd party backup solutions, which support snapdiff v3?
Sorry for so much questions, but this is not easy to understand all the possibilities.
Best regards, Florian
________________________________ Von: "Wayne McCormick" Wayne.McCormick@sjrb.ca An: "Heino Walther" hw@beardmann.dk, "Justin Parisi" Justin.Parisi@netapp.com, "Florian Schmid" fschmid@ubimet.com, "toasters" toasters@teaparty.net Gesendet: Montag, 28. November 2022 17:39:16 Betreff: RE: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
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-clou...
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
From: Toasters toasters-bounces@teaparty.net On Behalf Of Heino Walther Sent: Monday, November 28, 2022 8:02 AM To: Parisi, Justin Justin.Parisi@netapp.com; Florian Schmid fschmid@ubimet.com; toasters@teaparty.net Subject: SV: NetApp backup to 3rd party S3 storage
ATTENTION: This email originated outside of Shaw. Do not click links or open attachments unless you trust the sender and know the content is safe. Immediately report suspicious emails using the Phish Alert Report button. 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
/Heino
Fra: Parisi, Justin <Justin.Parisi@netapp.commailto:Justin.Parisi@netapp.com> Dato: mandag, 28. november 2022 kl. 15.32 Til: Heino Walther <hw@beardmann.dkmailto:hw@beardmann.dk>, Florian Schmid <fschmid@ubimet.commailto:fschmid@ubimet.com>, toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net <toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net> 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.
https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html
"In addition, unlike standard SnapMirror, S3 SnapMirror can have non-NetApp destinations." [Das Bild wurde vom Absender entfernt.]https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html
S3 SnapMirror overview - NetApphttps://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/s3-snapmirror/index.html Beginning with ONTAP 9.10.1, you can protect buckets in ONTAP S3 object stores using familiar SnapMirror mirroring and backup functionality docs.netapp.com
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:
https://www.cleondris.com/en/snapmirror-cloud.xhtml Cleondris: SnapMirror Cloudhttps://www.cleondris.com/en/snapmirror-cloud.xhtml Cleondris and NetApp are pleased to announce availability of SnapMirror Cloud support in the Cleondris Data Manager product. Cleondris orchestrates and manages backup and recovery of data on NetApp ONTAP systems directly to Object storage (S3) leveraging NetApp's SnapMirror Cloud technology.. Due to is its deep integration with ONTAP APIs, Cleondris is able to backup data from ONTAP using the ... www.cleondris.comhttp://www.cleondris.com
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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
Fra: Florian Schmid <fschmid@ubimet.commailto:fschmid@ubimet.com> Dato: mandag, 28. november 2022 kl. 14.45 Til: toasters@teaparty.netmailto:toasters@teaparty.net <toasters@teaparty.netmailto: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
On 2022-11-28 16:01, Heino Walther wrote:
Please note, that S3 SnapMirror cannot snapmirror a FlexVol, but only your S3 buckets located on your ONTAP Filer...
I concur. (Not that I've ever done this, we have no S3 Buckets in any ONTAP system and we won't have for the foreseeable future; we have a large on-prem StorageGRID system.) Exactly how S3 SnapMirror works (in detail), I'm not totally clear on simply because I have not read all the material there is to read.
Heino Walther wrote:
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 :-)
I concur. SnapMirror/-Vault ONTAP (WAFL) <--> ONTAP (WAFL) is the way it has always worked. And SnapRestore of course. And nowadays this can also be done using the SnapDiff v3 API and SnapMirror Cloud where the latter simply means that the same SnapMirror engine inside ONTAP has an S3 endpoint (Bucket) as a target to store the data. Something else must keep track of the blocks and where they belong, since WAFL on the SnapVault target side is out of the equation in this scenario. E.g. NetApp's own CBS (Cloud Backup Service) or a 3rd party product: Cleondris, Rubrik, ... You *can* actually do backup of a whole volume (FlexVol / FlexGroup) with SnapMirror Cloud using only System Manager. But it's very crude, it doesn't have much functionality. Can't restore single files for example. To do it, you still have to purchase HCB (Hybrid Cloud Bundle) from NetApp and it's paid per TiB "physical data" which you have backed up
/M
Greetings, Can someone please clarify this for me? My understanding is that cloud backup is just scheduling the snap diff v3 to object storage. You could get similar functionality by any vendor that netapp approves, of which I believe there are 4 others?
I tried getting licenses to try this on premise to ontap s3 and was immediately turned away. It’s super unclear how netapp intends to position this cloud. Has anyone been able to try the inbuilt backup to an ontap or grid target?
On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 9:11 AM Heino Walther hw@beardmann.dk wrote:
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 _______________________________________________ Toasters mailing list Toasters@teaparty.net https://www.teaparty.net/mailman/listinfo/toasters
On 2022-11-28 17:22, Douglas Siggins wrote:
Can someone please clarify this for me? My understanding is that cloud backup is just scheduling the snap diff v3 to object storage. You could get similar functionality by any vendor that netapp approves, of which I believe there are 4 others?
First of all: nothing of what I write below has anything to do with "S3 Bucket mirror" from a Primary ONTAP system which does S3 storage.
CBS (Cloud Backup Service) is something that originally runs in-Cloud only. That's where it was always meant to live. But now it can also run "off-Cloud" (= on-prem), in something called NetApp Cloud Manager Dark Site Edition. Which you'd then need to install in your own environment first, I think it's a VM (ESXi) image for example. CBS an orchestrator which uses SnapDiff v3 and leverage SnapMirror Cloud to take "snapshots" (block diffs just like SnapMirror/-Vault does) and puts it in an S3 Bucket. For on-prem S3 systems, only StorageGRID and ONTAP are approved today. Not minIO or anything else.
There are other vendors yes, tech partners, which have paid NetApp to use SnapDiff v3 and SnapMirror Cloud in the same fashion CBS does. That product, e.g. Cleondris Appliance or Rubrik Foundation Suite, then does all the orchestration and configuration of your backups, the work that SnapVault does inside ONTAP traditionally. That product will have to keep track of all the files and blocks, what belongs where: all the backup metadata. All that which a SnapVault target system's ONTAP (WAFL) will keep track of traditionally.
To use a 3rd party product in that list, you need to purchase something called HCB (Hybrid Cloud Bundle) from NetApp. To enable the SM Cloud + SnapDiff v3 from the ONTAP side so to speak. You have to pay for it per TiB (Tebibyte) "physical used data" which you have backed up to your S3 target system. The definition of this is as opposed to "logical used data" which CBS uses. I won't go into the distinction here because I do not want to cause even more confusion. All this *is* confusing, indeed. Talk to your account team and force them to penetrate this and explain it to you properly!
Douglas Siggins wrote:
I tried getting licenses to try this on premise to ontap s3 and was immediately turned away. It's super unclear how netapp intends to position this cloud. Has anyone been able to try the inbuilt backup to an ontap or grid target?
Hm. Interesting. You were "turned away"...? By your account team at NetApp? I agree that things are rather unclear around this. If you wish to use CBS on-prem, then clearly as things have progressed these days NetApp compete directly with their tech partners products: Rubrik, Cleondris, ProLion, CommVault (those which have licensed SnapDiff v3). The price models are in constant flux and have been for at least 12 months. It's confusing and can only get better for us who have huge on-prem environments and want to leverage at least some of the new in-Cloud cleverness NetApp has come up with over the past 24 months.
/M
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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
*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
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