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Dynamic NAS Protection with PowerProtect Data Manager is a software-only solution that supports centralized backup and recovery for NAS assets. Dynamic NAS Protection provides a non-NDMP, crawl- and backup-based solution by leveraging the NAS Protection Engine internally using Files System Agents (FSA) file-based backup (FBB) technology. Data Manager with Dynamic NAS Protection supports multistream backup and restore. With centralized support, Data Manager controls and manages end-to-end backup and recovery operations.
Dynamic NAS Protection supports all the Data Manager objectives such as DD Replication, Cloud Tier, progress monitoring, and SLA compliance.
It can also support protection for Dell PowerStore, Dell Unity, Dell PowerScale (Isilon) NAS products, and any NFS or CIFS share using generic NAS, such as NetApp, Windows, and Linux file servers, from other vendors.
Note: Supported hardware or software platforms may be updated in subsequent releases. See the support matrix at https://elabnavigator.dell.com/eln/modernHomeDataProtection for the latest product information.
Data Manager can protect NAS assets in two ways:
Shares on the supported Dell Technologies appliances (as listed above) are automatically detected, and NFS and CIFS shares from other NAS platforms can be manually added. NAS protection backs up and recovers ACLs and extended attributes for NFSv4 and CIFS or SMB shares.
Dynamic NAS Protection supports the following restore use cases: