I have been reading a lot of posts and ONTAP documentation but still confused as to how this should be setup.
Requirement is to have snapshots as below.
Source: every 4hr for 2 days
daily for 7 days
weekly for 4 weeks
Destination: daily 30 days
weekly 8
monthly 12
yearly 7
I have followed the Snapvault express guide to set this up on a test volume but still not clear and can't get it to work as expected. The step are
1. create a new vol on destination
2. create a new schedule on destination ( use default daily to run overnight)
3. create snapshot policy on source and apply to source vol
4. create a snapvault policy on destination.
5. create the snapvault relationship on destination
What is confusing me is step 3 and 4.
I have created the snapshot policy in step 3 on the cluster level, does this have to be on the svm level ??, do I add the local schedules and the destination schedules to this same policy ??
As we don't want to keep monthly or yearly on the primary I set the retention to 0 ( or should this be 1 ??)
Any help will be much appreciated.
Thanks
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CIFS 5 true -
Schedule Count Prefix SnapMirror Label
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CIFS_STD 12 CIFS_STD -
weekly 4 weekly -
CIFS_YEARLY 0 CIFS_YEARLY cifs-snapvault-yearly
CIFS_MNTH 0 CIFS_MNTH cifs-snapvault-monthly
daily 0 daily cifs-snapvault-daily
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SnapMirror Policy Name: cifs-snapvault
SnapMirror Policy Type: vault
Policy Owner: vserver-admin
Tries Limit: 8
Transfer Priority: normal
Ignore accesstime Enabled: false
Transfer Restartability: always
Network Compression Enabled: false
Create Snapshot: false
Comment: -
Total Number of Rules: 3
Total Keep: 49
Rules: SnapMirror Label Keep Preserve Warn
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cifs-snapvault-daily 30 false 0
cifs-snapvault-monthly 12 false 0
cifs-snapvault-yearly 7 false 0
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