Discover assets

NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center discovers all the volumes (except clone volumes and system volumes) and snapshots. Volumes are primary assets, each contains the associated snapshots and asset IDs.

NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center discovers all the nested NFS and SMB views irrespective of the depth at which they are created. Following are the examples of nested shares discovered by Snapshot Manager for Data Center: ["/test_fs1", "/test_fs1/test_fs2", "/test_fs1/test_data/test_fs3", "/smb_03/test_data/dir01"]

Create snapshot

NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center takes a snapshot of HPE volume.

To create a snapshot, NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center initiates a POST REST API call on the array with the required information and snapshot name. The API returns the details of the snapshot.

A typical snapshot created has the following naming convention: NB<unique_21digit_number>

Delete snapshot

To delete a snapshot, the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center initiates a DELETE REST API call with the necessary snapshot details and confirms that the snapshot has been successfully deleted from the cluster.

Restore snapshot

Point-in-time (PIT) restores are not supported by NetBackup; however, individual files or folders can be restored from a snapshot. For rollback or PIT restores, use the HPE GreenLake for File Storage portal or APIs.

Export snapshot

When a snapshot export operation is initiated:

Deport snapshot

When a snapshot deport operation is initiated, the NetBackup Snapshot Manager for Data Center deletes the NFS export or SMB share that was created over the snapshot path during the export operation.