Trident protect with PVs using NFS/SMB CSI drivers

[forest junco]

We have applications that are using other CSI provisioners (NFS and SMB drivers, for example). When I configure a Backup using the CR, it generates an error that it can't create a snapshot of a PV using an unsupported CSI driver - "Source snapshot failed with permanent error: persistent volume '<pv name>' snapshot failed due to an incompatible CSI driver: permanent error".

This makes sense because those PVs weren't provisioned by Trident, but is there a way to only back up the PV/PVC manifests themselves and not attempt to create a volume snapshot of the data within the PV?

Moving the PVs using the NFS driver to the Trident CSI driver may be an option, but it wouldn't be a solution for the applications using the SMB CSI driver.

[arctic gale]

@hard pier This something you can assist with?

[hard pier]

I assume you are using trident protect to do backups. There is no way I know of to use trident protect to backup namespaces with other storage types besides Trident.

[arctic gale]

@forest junco just pingin ya to make sure you saw the response

[forest junco]

Thanks @hard pier and @arctic gale - appreciate it!