VBR 12.3 had a pretty big payload across our alliance partners. One of those is the NetApp with the ONTAP SnapDiff API. This is a native change file tracking capability built into the ONTAP OS (differencing engine). This will help customers reduce the amount of time it takes for a NAS backup with changes to complete. This improvement was highly requested by our customers. It is easy to enable when you are adding an “Unstructured Data source” in VBR see link and figure 1 below. Once enabled, you will see messages in the job log on incremental backups figure 2. Please spread the word to your ONTAP customers. This is a v1 version of SnapDiiff more features coming (TBD)😀.
Adding Enterprise Storage System as NAS Filer
Note: There are a few restrictions mentioned in the link above listed below.
- Native changed files tracking (CFT) is not supported for NetApp ONTAP versions from 9.10.1 to 9.10.1P10.
- Native changed files tracking (CFT) is not supported for NetApp ONTAP FlexGroup volumes.
- Joint NetApp Veeam blog available on TechONTAP Community requires NetApp account to access - NetApp Veeam SnapDiff blog
