https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/DFM-and-Cloning/m-p/99177#M17488 <P>I have a customer who wants to use Protection Manager with SMO to perform backups.&nbsp; We have it set up now to do so (Local snapshot then snapmirror to destination), however custy wants to do on-demand cloning of the destination volume via PM.&nbsp; I'm not sure how to do this, for PA is not setup to do this (as far as I know).&nbsp; So, I was thinking of making an empty policy with an embeded script to do this and just add the destination volume they want to clone in a dataset with this policy.&nbsp; Problem is how can I get the script to grab the destination volume name to perform the clone without manually passing it as an argument?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If this can't be done, is the only solution to go with WFA?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks in advanced,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>tk</P> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:18:12 GMT caratacus 2025-06-05T05:18:12Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/DFM-and-Cloning/m-p/99177#M17488 <P>I have a customer who wants to use Protection Manager with SMO to perform backups.&nbsp; We have it set up now to do so (Local snapshot then snapmirror to destination), however custy wants to do on-demand cloning of the destination volume via PM.&nbsp; I'm not sure how to do this, for PA is not setup to do this (as far as I know).&nbsp; So, I was thinking of making an empty policy with an embeded script to do this and just add the destination volume they want to clone in a dataset with this policy.&nbsp; Problem is how can I get the script to grab the destination volume name to perform the clone without manually passing it as an argument?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>If this can't be done, is the only solution to go with WFA?</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Thanks in advanced,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>tk</P> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:18:12 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/DFM-and-Cloning/m-p/99177#M17488 caratacus 2025-06-05T05:18:12Z https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/DFM-and-Cloning/m-p/99238#M17507 <P>Nevermind.&nbsp; I'll just hardcode the destination volume in the script...</P> Wed, 14 Jan 2015 15:15:06 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Active-IQ-Unified-Manager-Discussions/DFM-and-Cloning/m-p/99238#M17507 caratacus 2015-01-14T15:15:06Z