NDMP Agent: Feature Support by Vendor

The following table lists features supported by each array vendor, as well as any exceptions listed as notes.

Dell

Components and operations	Feature
Libraries and Pools	NAS-Attached Libraries
	NAS-Attached Drive Pools
Backup	Multiple Streams
Browse	Browse from Copies
	Browse the Latest Data
	Page Size
	Specify Browse Path
	Specify Browse Time
	Use MediaAgent
Restore	Direct Access Restore
	Choosing to Overwrite or Not to Overwrite Restores
	Two-Way Restore
	Three-Way Restore
Subclient	Subclient Content
	Filtering Content

Components and operations	Feature	Notes
Libraries and Pools	NAS-Attached Libraries
	NAS-Attached Drive Pools
Backup	Fast Incremental	Supported for Isilon versions between but not including 7.1.1.5 and 7.2.0.0, and above 7.2.0.3, but not including 7.2.1.0.
	High Deduplication Rates
	Multiple Streams	Isilon file servers with OneFS 8.0 and higher can backup individual data paths using multiple streams. See the note for Isilon in Configuring Multiple Streams for Backups.
	Restartable Backup	Supported for Isilon version 7.1 and later. The Isilon file server supports restarting multi-stream backups starting with OneFS 9.2.1.
	Snapshot to Backup
Browse	Browse from Copies
	Browse the Latest Data
	Page Size
	Specify Browse Path
	Specify Browse Time
	Use MediaAgent
Restore	Direct Access Restore	Direct Access restore of a directory (DDAR) is supported for Isilon OneFS 7.0 and later.
	File System Restore
	Two-Way Restore
	Three-Way Restore
Subclient	Subclient Content
	Filtering Content

Components and operations	Feature	Notes
Libraries and Pools	NAS-Attached Libraries
	NAS-Attached Drive Pools
Backup	Back Up from Snapshot
	Back Up Offline Data	PowerStore does not support backing up offline data.
	High Deduplication Rates	Excludes VBB backups
	Multiple Streams
	Volume Based Back Up (VBB)	Dell EMC Unity and PowerStore do not support VBB
Browse	Browse from Copies
	Browse the Latest Data
	Page Size
	Specify Browse Path
	Specify Browse Time
	Use MediaAgent
Restore	Direct Access Restore	EMC's Celerra enhanced Direct Access restore of a directory (DDAR) is supported on DARTOS 5.5 and later. Prior to DARTOS 5.5, direct access restore of a directory was supported but not the enhanced version.
	Choosing to Overwrite or Not to Overwrite Restores
	File System Restore
	Two-Way Restore
	Three-Way Restore
	Choosing Recursive or Non-Recursive Restores (Other vendors only support recursive restores)
Subclient	Subclient Content
	Filtering Content

Components and operations	Feature	Notes
Libraries and Pools	NAS-Attached Libraries
	NAS-Attached Drive Pools
Backup	Back up External Links	Hitachi NAS (BlueArc) Revision 12.0 or higher
	Back up from Snapshot
	Backup up Offline Data
	Back up Quotas
	High Deduplication Rates
	Multiple Streams
	Readahead Processes
	Use Snapshot Rule
Browse	Browse from Copies
	Browse the Latest Data
	Page Size
	Specify Browse Path
	Specify Browse Time
	Use MediaAgent
Restore	Direct Access Restore
	Choosing to Overwrite or Not to Overwrite Restores
	File System Restore
	Two-Way Restore
	Three-Way Restore
Subclient	Subclient Content
	Filtering Content

Components and operations	Feature	Notes
Libraries and Pools	NAS-Attached Libraries
	NAS-Attached Drive Pools
Backup	Cluster Aware Backup (CAB)
	High Deduplication Rates	Excluding SMTape backups
	Multiple Streams
	Restartable Backup	NetApp 7-Mode storage servers only
	Snapshot to Backup
Browse	Browse from Copies
	Browse the Latest Data
	Page Size
	Specify Browse Path
	Specify Browse Time
	Use MediaAgent
Restore	Direct Access Restore
	File System Restore
	Two-Way Restore
	Three-Way Restore
Subclient	Subclient Content
	Filtering Content