Number

Step

Description

1

Click Check Prerequisites on the Add NAS Proxy page.

Read through the list of prerequisites before installing the NAS proxy. The NAS proxy is the Enterprise Workloads agent installed on a separate Windows or Linux server. It handles backup and restore requests from NAS shares.

2

Download, install and activate the NAS proxy on

Activation authorizes the NAS proxy to communicate with the Druva Cloud and handle backup and restore jobs from the NAS share.

3

Add a NAS device and map it to a backup proxy pool

Add a NAS device that you want to back up and map it to a backup proxy pool. The pool should contain proxies compatible with the type of shares on the NAS device. At least one proxy should be present in a Backup Proxy Pool to map it with a device.

4

Discover shares or manually add them

Druva initiates a device auto-discovery as soon as a new NAS device is added. You can run auto-discovery on-demand or add shares manually.

5

Assign credentials

Assign credentials to SMB NAS shares if:

📝 Note
​If one user account does not have all required permissions over all folders in an SMB share hierarchy on NetApp, see Least privileges to protect SMB shares on NetApp for the least privileges that need to be assigned to the account for successful backups and restores.

6

Create a backup set for the NAS share

Specify a backup policy, add backup content, and map to the Backup Proxy Pool.