NDMP Agent: Supported Features

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

Feature	Sub-Feature	Comments
Advanced Backup/Archive Options	Data tab - Verify Synthetic Full
	Job Retry tab
	Media tab - Allow other Schedule to use Media Set
	Media tab - Mark Media Full on Success
	Media tab - Reserve Resources Before Scan
	Media tab - Start New Media
	Startup tab
	Vault Tracking tab
	Comments	Includes several additional options in the NAS Options tab.
Advanced File System Agent Options	Automatic File System Multi-Streaming
	On-Demand Data Protection Operation
	Restore by Jobs
	Restore Data Using a Map File
Alerts and Monitoring	Global Alerts
	Job-Based Alerts
Backup/Archive Options	Block-Level Backup
	Differential Backup
	Full Backup
	Incremental Backup
	Synthetic Full Backup
	Comments	Getting Started - NDMP Agent Backup
Browse	Browse from Copy Precedence
	Browse the Latest Data
	Browse Using Filters
	Exclude Data Before
	Find
	Full Backup Transparent Browse
	Image Browse
	No Image Browse
	Page Size
	Specify Browse Path
	Specify Browse Time
	Subclient Browse
	Use MediaAgent
	View All Versions
	Comments	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
CommCell Migration	CommCell Migration
Content Indexing	Offline Content Indexing	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
	Deleting a Job
	Extended Retention Rules
	Retaining a Job
	Unique Data Aging Rules
Data Compression	Client Compression
	Hardware Compression
	MediaAgent Compression
Data Encryption	Data Encryption
	Third-party Command Line Encryption Support
	Comments	Software encryption is supported when backup operations are configured to use a MediaAgent attached data path.
Data Multiplexing	Multiplexing
	Comments	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
	Source-Side Deduplication
	Comments	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
	Comments	Filters are only supported by certain agents. For more information about filters for agents, see Configuring Filters for Backups
GRC	GRC
Indexing	Indexing	NAS clients installed using Feature Release 11.20 or newer will have Indexing Version 2 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
	Restarts from the Beginning of the Database
	Restarts from the Point-of-Failure	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
	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
	List Media Associated with Index
	List Media Associated with Specific Files and/or Folders
	List Media Associated with Specific Jobs
	Comments	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
Restore/Recover/Retrieve Destinations	Cross-Application Restores (Different Application version)
	Cross-Platform Restores - Different Operating System
	Cross-Platform Restores - Same Operating System - Different Version
	In-place Restore - Same path/ destination - Same Client
	Out-of-place Restore - Different path/ destination
	Out-of-place Restore - Same path/ destination - Different Client
	Point-in-Time Restore
	Restore Data Using a Map File
	Restore to Network Drive /NFS-Mounted File System
	Table-Level Restore
	Comments	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
	Skip Errors and Continue
	Use Exact Index
	Use MediaAgent
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
	All Agent Types Schedule Policy
Storage Policies	Incremental Storage Policy	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
	Data Verification	To review the considerations for this sub-feature, see Data Verification Considerations for NAS Clients .
	Comments	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
Web Console Support	Web Console Interface