Backing up Net Appliance CIFS share definitions

Network Appliance (NetApp) CIFS share definitions include share permissions that are set on the file server.

About this task

The Windows client backs up the CIFS share definition under the root directory, the mapped CIFS share, or the UNC name. This support requires that the Net Appliance file server is running DATA ONTAP software, which presents CIFS shares to remote clients as ordinary remote NTFS shares.

The root directory of a CIFS share is backed up with a full progressive incremental backup of the mapped drive/UNC name. See the following two examples:

   net use x: \\NetAppFiler\CifsShareName 
   dsmc incr x:

   dsmc incr \\NetAppFiler\CifsShareName

The following output is displayed when the root directory (and share definition) is backed up:

   Directory-->                   0 \\NetAppFiler\CifsShare\ [Sent]