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

  1. Log on to the Data Fabric UI.
  2. Select Fabric user option from the dropdown on the Home page.
  3. 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.
  4. Click the volume name seen under Resource Name.
  5. Navigate to the Settings tab.
  6. Under Schedules, click the Edit icon seen next to Snapshots.
  7. Select a suitable schedule option for the volume.
  8. Click Select.

Results

The selected schedule is applied to the volume and snapshots are taken per schedule. The snapshots are stored in the .snapshots directory of the volume mount path.