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caspar32
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Advice Needed for NAS backup

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Dears:

We plan to use VEEAM to backup NAS data(Netapp ONTAP). Here we tested two ways which is provided by VEEAM(Filer & NDMP). Currently, we find theare are some pros and cons:
For Filer: If we need backup NAS data, we need add proxy number to improve performance and we may need an account which have access to access NAS data.
For NDMP: The backup speed is fast, but the restore should be the volume level. We have around 20T for some large volumes. The restoration is a disaster.

Any ideas which have a better NAS backup solution?
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I would recommend going down the Filer path. It will also make it easier to restore should you need to restore back to a different solution in the future. More importantly, consider how often would it be acceptable to restore on a volume-level, rather than file-level?

You can consider backing up from storage snapshots too (a guide can be found here: https://www.veeam.com/blog/nas-backup-r ... ation.html)
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Re: Advice Needed for NAS backup

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Hi Haslund:

I also prefer to do Filer backup. But what the account which is used to do this stroage snapshots?

We do have administrator rights for storage level, but the NAS share control is provided by AD. So I guess when we try to get some NAS shares which we have no access, we will fail to read data. Is it right?
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