> As mentioned in some other replies there are options for doing this.
> 
> 1) NFS backup         (blows chunks)
> 2) CIFS backups               (blows chunks)

> I'm sure you can tell that I am not a proponent of options 1 and 2.  And
> they aren't even options if you do multi-protocol access.  So just
> forget those unless you're really into pain.

I've used them in the past.  I don't prefer them (mainly for overhead of
remembering that the netapp isn't the client, the mounting server is),
but I don't know why it's not an option for multi-protocol.

All the NFS metadata is stored (and recovered) as a CIFS hidden
attribute, so that should be usable for some folks.  

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