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Vault relationships

You can use Storage Manager to create and manage vault relationships by using the vault policy.

  • Creating a vault relationship from a destination SVM
    You can use Storage Manager to create a vault relationship from the destination storage virtual machine (SVM), and to assign a vault policy to create a backup vault. In the event of data loss or corruption on a system, backed-up data can be restored from the backup vault destination.
  • Deleting vault relationships
    You can use Storage Manager to end a vault relationship between a source and destination volume, and release the Snapshot copies from the source.
  • Editing vault relationships
    You can use Storage Manager to edit a vault relationship either by selecting an existing policy or schedule in the cluster, or by creating a new policy or schedule. However, you cannot edit the parameters of an existing policy or schedule.
  • Initializing a vault relationship
    You can use Storage Manager to initialize a vault relationship if you have not already initialized it while creating the relationship. A baseline transfer of data is initiated from the source FlexVol volume to the destination FlexVol volume.
  • Updating a vault relationship
    You can use Storage Manager to manually initiate an unscheduled incremental update. You might require a manual update to prevent data loss due to an upcoming power outage, scheduled maintenance, or data migration.
  • Quiescing a vault relationship
    You can use Storage Manager to disable data transfers to the destination FlexVol volume by quiescing the vault relationship.
  • Resuming a vault relationship
    You can resume a quiesced vault relationship by using Storage Manager. When you resume the relationship, normal data transfer to the destination FlexVol volume is resumed and all vault activities are restarted.
  • Aborting a Snapshot copy transfer
    You can use Storage Manager to abort or stop a data transfer that is currently in progress.
  • Restoring a volume in a vault relationship
    You can use Storage Manager to restore Snapshot copies to a source volume or to other volumes if the source data is corrupted and is no longer usable. You can replace the original data with the Snapshot copies in the destination volume.
  • What a SnapVault backup is
    A SnapVault backup is a collection of Snapshot copies on a FlexVol volume that you can restore data from if the primary data is not usable. Snapshot copies are created based on a Snapshot policy. The SnapVault backup backs up Snapshot copies based on its schedule and SnapVault policy rules.