The features of Dynamic NAS Protection are:
- Data Mover NAS Protection Engine as Virtual Machine with containerized NAS agents
- Protection Engine OVA
- Auto discovery of NAS shares for supported Dell NAS appliances
- Intelligent share slicer for parallel backups
- Auto-slicing of NAS share to achieve multiple parallel streams
- Auto distribution of backup streams to single or multiple NAS Protection Engine
- Crawl and backup appliance snapshot or generic NAS share
- Forever incremental backup
- Supports large number of parallel backup streams:
- From 1 to 256 streams (can be set at asset level. See the section Protection Engine parameters for more details about the scalability of stream counts.)
- Restore with parallel streams:
- Index, search, and FLR
- Support for multiple protocol shares (discovers two shares: one CIFS and one NFS)
- Beginning with Data Manager 19.11, backups completed with an exception have:
- A complete list of skipped elements in backup and ACL backup skipped. This information can be generated in the backup log by setting the log debug level to 9. The backup log can then be exported to list the number of skipped files/folders with the reason that they were skipped.
Note: For details about how to review protection logs, see the PowerProtect Data Manager for Network Attached Storage User Guide on Dell Support at PowerProtect Data Manager Info Hub: Product Documents and Information.
- Beginning with Data Manager 19.12, backup of Japanese and Chinese file and path names is supported. These languages generally contain file names with multibyte characters and lengths of more than 255 bytes.
- Beginning with Data Manager 19.15, backup and recovery of NFS v4.1 and v4.2 is supported with all supported arrays including Powerstore, Powerscale, Unity and Generic shares.