NAS backup: Which suppliers have gone post-NDMP?
Summary
Products such as Veritas’s NetBackup and BackupExec, Commvault, IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), HPE Data Protector, EMC’s Avamar and Networker, and Arcserve are all firmly in the NDMP camp. Products like these often allow for multiple vendor’s NAS as a backup source via agents and often lay claim to offers of point-in-time and cross-platform restore (such as Commvault). The data management approach is taken further by Igneous, which offers that functionality discretely, and also allows for the copy of backup to become the move of archiving. What exactly are the issues with NDMP, and what are backup suppliers doing to make a decades-old storage staple easier to protect? Rubrik doesn’t offer the ability to backup NAS vendor storage snapshots, and cites difficulties that can come with that approach.