NetApp Backup and Recovery
Simplify 3-2-1 backup for ONTAP® data with secure, cost-effective protection across hybrid multicloud environments—so you can reduce risk and recover with confidence.
Why choose NetApp for backup and recovery?
NetApp Backup and Recovery is a data protection service that protects ONTAP data across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments. Snapshot supports near-instant recovery, while SnapMirror enables efficient replication—reducing risk, cost, and complexity.
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NetApp Backup and Recovery is the perfect solution if you're looking to implement a 3-2-1 backup strategy with ease. With its single control plane, automated approach, ability to apply 3-2-1 variants by workload, you can protect your data without worrying about the complexities that come with traditional backup solutions.
Reliable and direct backup
Easily adopt the 3-2-1 backup strategy with local NetApp Snapshot™ copies, replications, and remote backup copies. Benefits include:
- Independent and reliable backup, with data stored in a read-only Snapshot copy hosted locally, on another ONTAP system, or separately from the ONTAP cluster
- No middleman: Back up directly from ONTAP to the desired destination without adding a point of failure
- 99.999999999% data durability, because the backup copy changes the data format to object storage
Faster, more efficient backup for PB-scale data
Never miss a backup window. Now, backup is 100 times faster than NDMP. Benefits include:
- Preservation of ONTAP storage efficiencies, including deduplication, compression, and compaction
- Incremental-forever backup: The full data set is created only once—no rebaseline needed
- Block-level replication updates only changed 4KB data blocks, not whole files
- Unlimited scale with object storage on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, ONTAP S3, or NetApp StorageGRID® object storage
Single console
A collection of intuitive wizards and dashboards let you implement and manage any variant of the 3-2-1 backup strategy. Now you can:
- Select volumes and define their backup policy and architecture
- Search and restore backups at a granular level, using an indexed catalog with all backup copies, including local Snapshot copies
- Audit your data estate and its backup status with comprehensive reports and dashboards
Inherently secure and ransomware-resilient
Create a secure backup of your mission-critical data. Now your data is:
- Protected end-to-end with AES 256-bit encryption at rest, TLS/HTTPS encryption in flight, and customer-managed key (CMK) support
- Stored in an immutable and indelible WORM (write once, read many) state
- Air-gapped with multiregion, multicloud, and cross-account operability
- Locked and monitored; users are alerted about any attempt to corrupt the data
Optimized for cost-efficiency
Reduce your backup TCO.
Reduce footprint, maintaining native ONTAP efficiencies.
Get the cheapest and easiest long-term archiving with cloud archival tiers
NetApp Backup and Recovery now supports all your workloads
The new release has been redesigned to provide data protection for all your workloads. This includes support for volumes, databases, VMs and Kubernetes. Now, from a unified control plane, you can easily define a 3-2-1 data protection strategy for all your ONTAP data.
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FAQs
What is NetApp Backup and Recovery and what business problems does it solve?
NetApp Backup and Recovery is a data protection service for ONTAP environments that provides backup, recovery, archival, and disaster recovery capabilities for volumes, databases, virtual machines, and Kubernetes workloads. It protects both on-premises ONTAP and Cloud Volumes ONTAP data by storing backup copies in object storage such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, NetApp StorageGRID, and ONTAP S3.
For IT infrastructure leaders, the primary outcomes are:
- Long-term data retention and archival
- Faster recovery from operational incidents
- Reduced backup infrastructure complexity
- Centralized management of backup and recovery operations
- Support for ransomware recovery and disaster recovery strategies
- Lower storage costs through the use of object and archive storage tiers
How does NetApp Backup and Recovery improve backup efficiency compared to traditional approaches?
NetApp Backup and Recovery uses snapshot-based incremental backups. After the initial backup, only changed and new blocks are transferred and protected. Backups operate at the block level and preserve ONTAP storage efficiencies such as deduplication, compression, and compaction.
This approach delivers several operational benefits:
- Less data movement across the network
- Reduced backup windows
- Lower object storage consumption
- Faster backup completion
- Better scalability as data volumes grow
Because only changed blocks are transferred, organizations can protect large datasets more efficiently than approaches that repeatedly copy unchanged data. This allows organizations to meet the most stringent RPO/RTO requirements.
What are "incremental forever" backups and how are they more efficient than traditional NDMP backups?
NetApp Backup and Recovery uses an incremental forever architecture. After the initial backup, all subsequent backups transfer only changed data blocks rather than creating repeated full backup copies. The solution uses snapshot-based incremental backups where only new or modified blocks are sent to the backup target.
Compared with traditional NDMP-based backup methods, this can provide significant efficiency advantages:
- Eliminates the need for recurring full backups
- Reduces backup storage requirements
- Minimizes network bandwidth consumption
- Shortens backup windows
- Preserves ONTAP storage efficiencies including deduplication and compression
- Scales more effectively as datasets grow larger
For infrastructure teams managing large NAS environments, incremental forever backups can help reduce operational overhead while maintaining frequent recovery points.
How does NetApp Backup and Recovery help protect against ransomware?
NetApp Backup and Recovery provides multiple layers of backup protection. Backup copies can be made immutable using the DataLock feature, preventing unauthorized modification, deletion, or encryption of protected backup data for a defined retention period. DataLock is supported with AWS, Azure, and StorageGRID environments.
Additional protection capabilities include:
- Immutable backup copies
- Object-lock based write-once-read-many (WORM) protection
- Optional ransomware scanning and integrity verification
- End-to-end encryption
- Point-in-time recovery from protected backup copies
The outcome is a more resilient recovery posture that helps organizations maintain recoverable backup copies even if production systems are compromised.
What workloads and environments can NetApp Backup and Recovery protect?
NetApp Backup and Recovery supports a broad range of ONTAP-based workloads including:
- NAS volumes and file data
- Microsoft SQL Server databases
- VMware virtual machines
- Hyper-V virtual machines
- Kubernetes applications and persistent volumes
- Cloud Volumes ONTAP environments
- On-premises ONTAP deployments
Backup targets can include AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, NetApp StorageGRID, and ONTAP S3 object storage. The service also supports 3-2-1 data protection architectures for improved resiliency and disaster recovery readiness.
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