Quest NetVault Backup Supports Block-Level Incremental Backups

Quest Software, Inc. announced that NetVault Backup, the company’s enterprise data protection product, now supports block-level incremental backups for NetApp, Inc.‘s  SnapMirror technology, enabling customers to create fast, efficient backups that consume significantly less storage space.

With the release of its NetVault Backup plug-in for SnapMirror-to-Tape, Quest Software exploits NetApp’s block-level incremental backup functionality for SnapMirror, enabling users to perform incremental backups of selected volumes or snapshots and store them on tape.

With NetVault Backup, NetApp customers now only need to backup the block-level changes since their last full or incremental backup. As a result, backups are faster and consume less storage space.

This new capability enhances Quest’s support for NetApp storage arrays. NetVault Backup supports the full range of NetApp technologies, including SnapVault Manager, Snapshot Manager and SnapMirror.

NetVault Backup is integrated with NetApp technologies, centralizing management of all data protection tasks into one easy-to-use interface. This reduces the complexity of managing snapshot lifecycle’s on multiple filers, SnapVault relationships and SnapMirror operations for DR.

Working in conjunction with SnapMirror technology, NetVault Backup enables volumes to be mirrored and efficiently backed up to tape, freeing up valuable disk space, and making it easy to send data offsite for long-term data retention and DR purposes.

NetVault Backup supports block-level incremental backups for SnapMirror on storage platforms running NetApp Data ONTAP 8.1.1 and later.

John Maxwell, VP, product management, Data Protection, Quest Software, said: "NetVault Backup offers extensive support for a wide range of platforms, applications and storage devices. Quest and NetApp have collaborated on joint development for many years to deliver best-of-breed technology for protecting NetApp appliances. NetVault Backup was one of the first backup solutions to offer SnapMirror-to-Tape support, and now we’re proud to be the first vendor to support the product’s block-level incremental backup functionality, as well."