NDMP Agent: Supported Features

The following table lists the features that are supported by this agent.

Feature

Sub-Feature

Support

Comments

Advanced Backup/Archive Options

Data tab - Verify Synthetic Full

Job Retry tab

tick

Media tab - Allow other Schedule to use Media Set

tick

Media tab - Mark Media Full on Success

tick

Media tab - Reserve Resources Before Scan

Media tab - Start New Media

tick

Startup tab

tick

Vault Tracking tab

tick

Comments

tick

Includes several additional options in the NAS Options tab.

Advanced File System Agent Options

Automatic File System Multi-Streaming

tick

On-Demand Data Protection Operation

tick

Restore by Jobs

Restore Data Using a Map File

tick

Alerts and Monitoring

Global Alerts

tick

Job-Based Alerts

tick

Backup/Archive Options

Block-Level Backup

Differential Backup

tick

Full Backup

tick

Incremental Backup

tick

Synthetic Full Backup

Comments

tick

Getting Started - NDMP Agent Backup

Browse

Browse from Copy Precedence

tick

Browse the Latest Data

tick

Browse Using Filters

Exclude Data Before

tick

Find

tick

Full Backup Transparent Browse

tick

Image Browse

No Image Browse

Page Size

tick

Specify Browse Path

tick

Specify Browse Time

tick

Subclient Browse

tick

Use MediaAgent

tick

View All Versions

tick

Comments

tick

See Supported Vendors

Restoring all versions of the backup data is not supported.

Clustering

Netware cluster

Unix Cluster

Windows - Microsoft Cluster (MSCS)

Windows - Non-Microsoft Cluster

Command Line Interface

Command Line Interface

tick

CommCell Migration

CommCell Migration

tick

Content Indexing

Offline Content Indexing

tick

  • Offline Content Indexing is supported for NetApp, Dell EMC Unity/Dell EMC VNX / Celerra, Dell EMC Isilon/PowerScale, and BlueArc (Hitachi NAS) backups with the following restrictions:

    For NetApp, content indexing is not supported from backups inside an Image Backup Set (SMTAPE backups).

    For Dell EMC VNX / Celerra:

    • content indexing is not supported from VBB backups

    • content indexing may give incomplete results for backups of a Celerra deduplicated file system

  • Access Control Lists (ACL) are content indexed by default for Dell EMC Isilon/PowerScale, Dell EMC Unity/Dell EMC VNX / Celerra, and NetApp file servers.

Data Aging

Basic Retention Rules

tick

Deleting a Job

tick

Extended Retention Rules

tick

Retaining a Job

tick

Unique Data Aging Rules

Data Compression

Client Compression

Hardware Compression

tick

MediaAgent Compression

tick

Data Encryption

Data Encryption

tick

Third-party Command Line Encryption Support

Comments

tick

Software encryption is supported when backup operations are configured to use a MediaAgent attached data path.

Data Multiplexing

Multiplexing

tick

Comments

tick

Data Multiplexing is supported for non-NDMP data when using file server or MediaAgent attached data paths. Data Multiplexing is supported for the NDMP Agent when backup operations are configured to use a MediaAgent attached data path.

Deduplication

MediaAgent-Side Deduplication

tick

Source-Side Deduplication

Comments

tick

See FAQ - Deduplication to Disk for deduplication of NDMP backups.

Delete Backup and Archive Data

Delete Data Using CommCell Console

Delete Data Using Web Console

File System Backup Quota

File System Backup Quota

Global Filters

Global Filters

tick

Comments

tick

Filters are only supported by certain agents. For more information about filters for agents, see Configuring Filters for Backups

GRC

GRC

tick

Indexing

Indexing

tick

NAS clients installed using Feature Release 11.20 or newer will have the latest version of indexing enabled by default.

For more information, see Indexing.

Installing 32-bit Components on a Microsoft Windows x64 Platform

Install 32-bit On x64

Job Restart - Data Protection

Not Restartable

Restarts from the Beginning

tick

Restarts from the Beginning of the Database

Restarts from the Point-of-Failure

tick

Support for job restart or resume from point-of-failure is vendor based. The following arrays support this feature.

  • NetApp 7-Mode

  • NetApp C-mode (ONTAP 9.0 and later)

  • Dell EMC Isilon/PowerScale OneFS 7.1 and later for single stream backups.

  • Dell EMC Isilon/PowerScale OneFS 9.2.1 and later for multi-stream backups.

    This feature is not supported for NetApp image backup set (SMtape) backups.

Job Restart - Data Recovery

Not Restartable

tick

Restarts from the Beginning

Restarts from the Beginning of the Database

Restarts from the Point-of-Failure

List Media

List Media Associated with a Specific Backup Set or Instance

tick

List Media Associated with Index

tick

List Media Associated with Specific Files and/or Folders

tick

List Media Associated with Specific Jobs

tick

Comments

tick

Media for the files to restore are detected, but additional media that the file server may request during restore may not be detected. For example, the first media for a job will likely be needed.

Filters are not taken into consideration when predicting media at the subclient level or backupSet level restore option.

Live Sync

Replication

Failover

Failback

Validation

Multi Instancing

Multi-Instance Installations

Optimized Scan

Optimized Scan

Pre/Post Processes

Pre/Post Process with Data Protection and Recovery

tick

Restore/Recover/Retrieve Destinations

Cross-Application Restores (Different Application version)

Cross-Platform Restores - Different Operating System

tick

Cross-Platform Restores - Same Operating System - Different Version

tick

In-place Restore - Same path/ destination - Same Client

tick

Out-of-place Restore - Different path/ destination

tick

Out-of-place Restore - Same path/ destination - Different Client

tick

Point-in-Time Restore

tick

Restore Data Using a Map File

tick

Restore to Network Drive /NFS-Mounted File System

Table-Level Restore

Comments

tick

See Restore for the NDMP Agent.

Restore/Recover/Retrieve Options

Automatic Detection of Regular Expressions

Filter Data From Recover Operations

Rename/ Redirect Files on Restore

Restore Data Using Wildcard Expressions

Restore Data with Pre/Post Processes

Restore from Copies

tick

Skip Errors and Continue

Use Exact Index

tick

Use MediaAgent

tick

Restore/Recover/Retrieve Overwrite Options

Overwrite Files

Overwrite if file in backup is newer

Restore only if target exists

Unconditional Overwrite

Unconditionally overwrite only if target is a DataArchiver stub

Schedule Policy

Agent Specific Data Protection Schedule Policy

tick

All Agent Types Schedule Policy

tick

Storage Policies

Incremental Storage Policy

tick

For NDMP agent backups, the MediaAgent associated to the Incremental Storage Policy option must have the same MediaAgent software version as the MediaAgent associated to the storage policy.

Standard Storage Policies

tick

Data Verification

tick

To review the considerations for this sub-feature, see Data Verification Considerations for NAS Clients .

Comments

tick

For NDMP agent backups, the MediaAgent associated to the Incremental Storage Policy option must have the same MediaAgent software version as the MediaAgent associated to the storage policy.

Subclient Policies

Subclient Policy

User Administration and Security

Backup Set/Archive Set

Instance

Subclient

tick

Web Console Support

Web Console Interface

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