Preserving a Volume Snapshot
Preserve a volume snapshot.
Prerequisites
- You must be a fabric user to preserve a volume snapshot.
About this task
You can preserve a volume snapshot if you wish to store a volume snapshot beyond the retention period defined during its creation.
Procedure
- Log on to the Data Fabric UI.
- Select Fabric user option from the dropdown on the Home page.
- Click the Table View icon on the Resources card. In the tabular list of fabrics, click the down arrow for the fabric that contains the volume whose snapshot is to be preserved.
- Click the volume name seen under Resource Name.
- Navigate to the Snapshots tab.
- Select the checkbox for the snapshot to preserve.
- Click the down arrow next to Actions seen on the top right side of the tab. Alternatively,
- Click the Preserve menu option.
- Click Preserve on the message box that appears.
Results
The volume snapshot is preserved successfully. A message informing you about successful preservation of snapshot is displayed on the Data Fabric UI.
The volume snapshot can be accessed from the .snapshot directory on
the volume mount path.
Related maprcli Commands
To implement the features described on this page, the
Data Fabric UI relies on the following
maprcli command. The
command is provided for general reference. For more information, see maprcli Commands in This Guide.