Strategies Comparison

Backup Strategies Comparison

Features	NFS Mount	NDMP dump/tar	NDMP SMTAPE
Incremental backup	Yes	Yes	No 3
Accurate support	Yes	Yes 1	Yes 1
ACL	No/Yes 1	Yes	Yes
Exclusion/Inclusion	Yes	Yes	No
Cross-filer recovery	Yes	No 1	No 1

Backup Side	NFS Mount	NDMP dump/tar	NDMP SMTAPE
Network load	Medium	Low	High
Backup size	Small	Small	Large 1
Average backup speed	Slow	Fast	Fast 1
Speed with many files	Slow	Fast	Very Fast

Restore Side	NFS Mount	NDMP dump/tar	NDMP SMTAPE
Network load	Low/Medium	High	High
Single File Restore	Very Fast	Slow	Slow
File Level Restore	Yes	Yes 2	No
Disaster Recovery	No	Yes	Yes
NetApp Cluster Support	Yes	Yes	Yes

1 Platform or configuration dependent

2 With use_hist option

3 Incremental and Differential backup support with NetApp only. See SMTAPE Incremental/Differential Configuration for more information.

See also

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• Backing Up Using NFS/CIFS without NDMP.

• Backing Up Using NDMP.

• Using NetApp SMTAPE Backup

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