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copy volumes onto external hard disk, copy onto filer and enabling snapmirror?

ADNOVUMNORBI — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:34:07 GMT

Hi NetApp Community,

I would have a question what I haven't found the answer yet for...

We're opening a new office in Vietnam and in the first years we won't have too high bandwidth between our office location and our headquarter that means synchronising would take for months.

We can't wait till then of course...

What we thought to do is to copy the data of all volumes we want to be mirrored onto an external hard disk and copy onto the storage after taking with me to Vietnam and then we would enable snapmirroring to get delta data synchronised and to have 1:1 mirror for these volumes henceforward.

Do you know if it's possible and if yes then how could we do it?

Thanks a lot for any help in advance!

Best,

Norbi

Re: copy volumes onto external hard disk, copy onto filer and enabling snapmirror?

SHARMAMANISH — Sat, 21 Jun 2014 12:28:50 GMT

Hi,

You can copy a volume data through share.... mount your share & copy data to eternal hard drive. Create the volume on destination filer & paste your data & start mirroring:)

Re: copy volumes onto external hard disk, copy onto filer and enabling snapmirror?

ADNOVUMNORBI — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 14:08:58 GMT

Hi Sharmamanish,

What I’ve tried so far:

- I’ve copied part of entire data to destination filer.

- I’ve copied entire data onto source filer.

- I’ve created snap mirror relationship (configuration)

- Started to mirror.

Unfortunately the device wanted to synchronise the entire data again and didn’t care about existing ones…

Maybe because of snapshot entries are missing and I should copy that one too?

Thanks&Cheers,

Norbi

Norbert Szabó

Head of IT Operations

AdNovum Hungary Kft.

Kapás utca 11-15, 1027 Budapest, Hungary

phone +36 1 487 5000, mobile +36 30 821 2665

norbert.szabo@adnovum.hu

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Re: copy volumes onto external hard disk, copy onto filer and enabling snapmirror?

SHARMAMANISH — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:05:11 GMT

Yes You are right.

Re: copy volumes onto external hard disk, copy onto filer and enabling snapmirror?

SHARMAMANISH — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 10:09:38 GMT

Copy that all the data & start the base line transfer.

Re: copy volumes onto external hard disk, copy onto filer and enabling snapmirror?

rdenyer001 — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 06:56:53 GMT

If you want to use SnapMirror you probably need to use the SMTape utility here is an KB that explains the procedure https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&id=1014301&locale=en_US

Re: copy volumes onto external hard disk, copy onto filer and enabling snapmirror?

clackamas — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 04:28:54 GMT

We do this every day, we use small NetApp 2220's as seed systems, we mirror to them at source site, power down, ship the 2220 to the destination mirror to the destination upon arrival, resync with the source. If you can tolerate a small outage, you could create a small aggregate, copy the data to a handful of dense 3T drives, pull the drives and ship them (remove ownership first!).