topic Snaplock and Veeam in ONTAP Discussions

Snaplock and Veeam

Fabian1993 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:12:42 GMT

Hi Guys,

Is there anyone who uses Snaplock volumes as a destination for Veeam Backup? I would appreciate your feedback...

Thank you

Re: Snaplock and Veeam

aladd — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 02:06:17 GMT

Are there specific details for which you're looking?

Re: Snaplock and Veeam

Fabian1993 — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 06:11:19 GMT

I would be interested in how to use Snaplock File locking for a Veeam Backup. (Lets say as a Ransomware Protection). Are they any Customer who using that?

Re: Snaplock and Veeam

aladd — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 06:34:56 GMT

Snapshots are already read only and can protect against ransomware attacks to an extent. For the additional protection of snaplock volumes and aggregates you can use the following guide for setup.

https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/topic/com.netapp.doc.pow-arch-con/GUID-1087DB8C-6A72-4FDE-A5C2-444F0A1BFC1F.html?cp=7_0_3

While I've never seen a customer use this configuration in their environment personally. I don't see a problem with the configuration to set up Veeam to create snapshots that would take advantage of snaplock.