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OSSV / SnapVault Newbie - Scheduling an automatic update.

rvandolson — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:44:17 GMT

7-Mode ONTAP 8.1.2P4 as a secondary system and OSSV on Windows as a primary. I have a relationship established and have been doing manual, periodic "snapvault update"s to bring across changes.

I want to schedule this, but I'm not sure that snapvault snap sched is what I'm after or not. It seems to be about retaining snapshots of data and really I just want to keep one copy -- as up to date as possible (once an hour or so). We're preparing for a migration.

Maybe I do something like:

snapvault snap sched -x hourly 1@mon-fri@0-23

Thanks,

Ray

Re: OSSV / SnapVault Newbie - Scheduling an automatic update.

lhoffman1 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 13:40:14 GMT

Hi Ray,

you are right, if you keep just one Snapshot you can set this with your mentioned scheduler.

With your settings, every hour will be made a snap and the previous snap will be deleted automaticly.

Notice: often the connection between the Filer and the OSSV Clients/Hosts are not optimal (bandwith?)

and in that case, there is a bigger change rate, 1 hour could be pretty narrow for transferring new data to the destination.

regards

Lutz

Re: OSSV / SnapVault Newbie - Scheduling an automatic update.

rvandolson — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 15:58:17 GMT

Thanks, Lutz. I'll give this a try. Our change rate has (so far) been as such that I can do an update within one and a half hours even after 7-8 hours of lag. But your point is well taken. I'll probably start with a wider window to be safe.

Re: OSSV / SnapVault Newbie - Scheduling an automatic update.

lhoffman1 — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:49:50 GMT

welcome.

I wish you success !