topic Re: Scheduling monthly snap shot in Data Protection

Scheduling monthly snap shot

MOHAMEDAQTHAR — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:55:31 GMT

Hello,

Currently in our environment we have scheduled weekly, daily and hourly snap shots. Is there a way to schedule monthly shot to be retained for a period of 6 months. Experts please let me know how can we achieve this.

Re: Scheduling monthly snap shot

resqme914 — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 19:16:01 GMT

I don't think you can do this using CLI or System Manager. I think Protection Manager can do it, but unless you're already using Protection Manager, I don't think it would be worth the effort of setting up Protection Manager just to schedule monthly snapshots. If I were tasked to do this, I would probably look into using a Windows or Unix host to "schedule" a monthly task/script to take the snapshots and manage the retention of the snapshots. We already have a "SAN Manager" windows server that does a bunch of these "administrative" tasks like schedule daily perfstats, act as our DFM server, etc.

Re: Scheduling monthly snap shot

richard_mackerras — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:53:52 GMT

Hi,

Keeping 26 or 30 weekly snapshots would have a similar effect. Other than that I would use a Unix shell script using SSH to do it. If you're not Unix you should be able to use PowerShell or SnapDrive for Windows (if a Windows lun) and the task scheduler.

What is the platform and protocol you are using?

Richard