Snapshot only backup for EMC Unity

[FrancWest]

Hi,

it seems that Snapshot only jobs aren't supported for EMC Unity. Any idea why this is? I mean, the basics are already there: Veeam does support backup from storage snapshot on EMC Unity. A Snapshot only job isn't that different from backing up from storage snapshot except that it shouldn't delete the snapshot at the end of the backup. So why isn't this supported and will it be added in a future release? Or is it already present in Update 3 but not mentioned in the release notes?

Frank.

[foggy]

Hi Franc, this functionality is currently not available, since it is a bit different code from backup from storage snapshot and Unity has a different set of API, so existing snapshot-only job code that is used for other EMC storages needs to be adapted. Chances are this will be added further down the road, but no time estimations.

[NightBird]

Some news about it ? may be in U4 ?

[Gostev]

It's not on the short-term roadmap. However, our Universal Storage API enables this functionality out of the box (in case you want to push your EMC rep to work on creating a plug-in).