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can you snapvault many source volumes to one destination volume?

crobinso — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:50:35 GMT

We have a few FAS3140s and would like to snapvault between them for backup/DR.

One of the filers is used for many VMs running Oracle. Each one of the VMs has a volume for the Oracle data so that we can snap the data at different times.

We want to snapvault these volumes to another filer.

What I would like to do is have one big snapvault volume that all the source volumes go into.

So for example on filerA (the source) we have

/vol/vol1

/vol/vol2

/vol/vol3

...

/vol/volN

on the destination I would like a volume:

/vol/sv1

Then the qtrees that the vaults would go to would be

/vol/sv1/vol1

/vol/sv1/vol2

etc

I had tried this but it didn't work right. What would happen is that say I would baseline with vol1 then the snap for vol2 would transfer and be 100% different than vol1, then vol3 would transfer and be 100% different than vol2, then the next day vol1 would be 100% different than vol3.

Thanks

Cade

can you snapvault many source volumes to one destination volume?

sinhaa — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:23:50 GMT

Do you use Protection manager ( OnCommand Management software) ? If you do then this I believe is possible by altering the option dpMaxFanInRatio.

can you snapvault many source volumes to one destination volume?

andrc — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:46:35 GMT

Provided the data in the volumes on filer1 is not in qtrees:

FilerA:/vol/vol1/- FilerB:/vol/sv1/FilerA_vol1

Otherwise:

FilerA:/vol/vol1/qtree1 FilerB:/vol/sv1/vol1_qtree1

FilerA:/vol/vol1/qtree2 FilerB:/vol/sv1/vol1_qtree2

FilerA:/vol/vol1/- FilerB:/vol/sv1/vol1_non_qtree_data