Quick plug for a free tool that can be used to check for ransomware on a NetApp system. It checks against many known ransomware variants to report on files that have been affected that you may not be aware about. The reports are great, and it can’t be knocked for a free tool. It is
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NetApp: Identify Snapshots Not Managed by Policy
The function below can be used to identify snapshots on a NetApp Cluster Mode system that do not have a corresponding snapshot schedule applied to the volume in question. It can be used to find odd snapshots that have been taken ad-hoc, and also to find snapshots that are left orphaned by changing the snapshot
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Assigning permissions to a volume through the NetApp PowerShell Toolkit
As part of my work to automate as much as I can, both to reduce time and increase consistency, I was looking for a way to assign permissions to a newly created volume which was providing a CIFS share through our NetApp FAS unit. Normally I would use the Get/Set-Acl cmdlets that are provided through
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Setting Up Kerberos NFS on NetApp Data OnTap 8.3 Cluster Mode
I have just been through the headaches of getting this set up and working, so I thought I would share a few notes and tips that I have come across on my way. I am not saying that this is a complete set up guide, or that it contains every step that is needed to
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PowerShell: Move SnapMirror Destinations to a New Aggregate (7-Mode)
We got some new disk shelves in to replace some old ones on our NetApp filer. The old disks had a lot of SnapMirror destination volumes.All these needed migrating to the new disks. Initially we were planning on creating a new set of SnapMirrors from the source volumes to the destinations, and once these were
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