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Backup SMB share with SnapCenter?

Steve_A — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:42:42 GMT

We are trying out FSx ONTAP and SnapCenter. We have an iSCSI share for SQL server and an SMB share configured. I was able to get SQL database backups working with SnapCenter but do not see a way to backup the SMB share. SnapCenter can see the Filesystem (AWS lingo) but I don't see any way to add it to Hosts or push an agent to make backups work.

Re: Backup SMB share with SnapCenter?

cedric_renauld — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 10:35:58 GMT

Hello,

snapCenter is made to backup the Applications, for Files, you can do SVM-DR ou Snapmirror / Vault

SVM-DR can "backup" your share configuration adn files permisions

Re: Backup SMB share with SnapCenter?

Steve_A — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 16:59:52 GMT

Thanks, I was hoping there was a more intelligent restore method like there is for SQL databases where you don't have to restore and configure an entire snapshot for one file.