Scheduling Volume Snapshots
Assign schedule to volume for creation of volume snapshots.
Prerequisites
- You must be a fabric user to assign a schedule to volume to take a volume snapshot.
- The volume to assign the pre-defined schedule to must be a standard volume.
About this task
You can assign a pre-defined schedule to a standard volume to take volume snapshots. See
Schedules for Volume Snapshots for details on pre-defined schedules.Follow the steps given below to schedule volume snapshot.
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 to snapshot.
- Click the volume name seen under Resource Name.
- Navigate to the Settings tab.
- Under Schedules, click the Edit icon seen next to Snapshots.
- Select a suitable schedule option for the volume.
- Click Select.
Results
.snapshots
directory of the volume mount path.