A customer is considering NetApp BlueXP backup and recovery. They want the ability to restore entire logical sets of data and to drill down and…

NetApp BlueXP backup and recovery is designed to provide flexible data restoration options. To meet the customer's requirement for restoring "entire logical sets of data," BlueXP allows for the restoration of entire volumes. A volume is a fundamental logical data container in ONTAP. For the second requirement, the ability to "drill down and restore from a more granular level," BlueXP provides a single-file restore capability. This feature enables users to browse backup copies, search for specific files or directories, and restore them individually without needing to restore the entire volume. These two capabilities directly address the customer's needs for both large-scale and granular data recovery.

A. object: This refers to restoring individual S3 objects. The question specifies restoring from a "file system," which implies file and directory structures, not object storage.

C. aggregate: An aggregate is a physical collection of disks. Backup and restore operations in BlueXP are performed on logical entities like volumes, not on the underlying physical aggregates.

D. SVM: While BlueXP does support SVM Disaster Recovery (SVM-DR), a volume is the more fundamental "logical set of data" for standard backup and recovery operations, directly pairing with the granular file restore capability.

1. NetApp BlueXP Documentation, "Restoring on-prem ONTAP data": This official document explicitly states the two primary restore methods: "You can restore data from a backup file to the source volume or to a different volume. You can also restore single files or directories from a backup file." This directly supports the selection of volume (E) and file (B) as the correct answers.

Source: NetApp BlueXP Documentation > Data protection > Back up and recover on-prem ONTAP data > Restoring on-prem ONTAP data.

2. NetApp BlueXP Documentation, "Search for and restore single files": This section details the granular restore capability. It states, "You can search for and restore single files or entire directories from any Snapshot copy or object storage backup file... This enables you to quickly restore a file that was accidentally deleted or lost without having to restore an entire volume." This confirms the file (B) restore capability.

Source: NetApp BlueXP Documentation > Data protection > Back up and recover on-prem ONTAP data > Restoring on-prem ONTAP data > Search for and restore single files.