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Volume disaster recovery preparation workflow

Preparing volumes for disaster recovery involves verifying the cluster peer relationship, creating the SnapMirror relationship between volumes residing on peered clusters, setting up the destination SVM for data access, and monitoring the SnapMirror relationship periodically.


This illustration is a flowchart of the volume disaster recovery preparation workflow. The steps in the workflow match the topics in this guide.

  • Setting up the destination SVM for data access
    You can minimize data access disruption when activating the destination volume by setting up required configurations such as LIFs, CIFS shares, and export policies for the NAS environment, and LIFs and initiator groups for the SAN environment on the SVM containing the destination volume.
  • Monitoring the status of SnapMirror data transfers
    You should periodically monitor the status of the SnapMirror relationships from the command line interface (CLI) to ensure that the SnapMirror data transfers are occurring as per the specified schedule.