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Considerations for SnapVault restore operations for FlexGroup volumes

You must be aware of certain considerations when you restore from SnapVault backups for FlexGroup volumes.

  • Only baseline restore is supported with partial Snapshot copies from a SnapVault backup.

    The number of constituents in the destination volume must match the number of constituents in the source volume when the Snapshot copy was taken.

  • If a restore operation fails, no other operations are allowed until the restore operation is complete.

    You can either retry the restore operation or run the restore operation with the cleanup parameter.

  • A FlexGroup volume can be the source volume of only one backup relationship or restore relationship.

    A FlexGroup volume cannot be the source of two SnapVault relationships, two restore relationships, or a SnapVault relationship and a restore relationship.

  • SnapVault backup and restore operations cannot run in parallel.

    When either a baseline restore operation or an incremental restore operation is in progress, you should quiesce the backup operations.

  • You must abort a restore operation of a partial Snapshot copy from the destination FlexGroup volume.

    You cannot abort the restore operation of a partial Snapshot copy from the source volume.

  • If you abort a restore operation, you must restart the restore operation with the same Snapshot copy that was used for the previous restore operation.