topic Re: Cloud Sync for CIFS shares in NetApp Console

Cloud Sync for CIFS shares

netappmagic — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:11:43 GMT

Based on my reading, Sync Cloud can also support CIFS shares in addtion to NFS.

However, I don't see examples on this regareds, I can see a lot of exaplations on the arctecture of Sycn Coud for NFS.

Does CIFS for Sycn Cloud also need Data Broker, and same architecture? Any documents?

Thanks!

Re: Cloud Sync for CIFS shares

yaronh — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 13:03:32 GMT

Yes it is fully supported.
Yes, you need a data broker. Can be the same one and use it both for NFS and CIFS.

Yaron Haimsohn
Manager, Cloud Solutions Architecture

Re: Cloud Sync for CIFS shares

netappmagic — Sat, 30 Dec 2017 23:17:07 GMT

Based on readings, it cann't support retention and automatically expiration, I think. Then it should not be used as a backup tool Correct?

Re: Cloud Sync for CIFS shares

yaronh — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 05:28:10 GMT

Re: Cloud Sync for CIFS shares

yaronh — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 05:28:27 GMT

It is not a backup tool per se. It can easily create a secondary/tertiary data copy, but was never planned as a backup tool. We are adding some features that would make it good for archival use cases.

Yaron Haimsohn
Manager, Cloud Solutions Architectur