Managing Snapshot Copies

The Manage Snapshots page enables you to perform the following Snapshot copy tasks:

The Snapshot copy management page contains information about the Snapshot copies that currently reside in the volumes on your storage system. Snapshot copies displayed on the page are sorted in the order of:

  1. Volume

  2. Date

  3. Name

The following table provides details about the information in the Manage Snapshots page.

Field

Definition

Volume

Name of the volume on which the Snapshot copies reside.

Name

Name of the Snapshot copy. For each Snapshot copy created automatically, the name contains a numeric suffix, which begins at 0. The more recent the Snapshot copy, the smaller the number. When the storage system deletes a Snapshot copy, it renumbers the existing Snapshot copies.

Date

Date and time the Snapshot copy was created.

Used

The disk space consumed by the Snapshot copy.

Total

The total amount of disk space consumed by all the Snapshot copies on the volume.

Status

The status of the Snapshot copy, including whether the Snapshot copy is part of a SnapMirror or SnapVault operation and whether the Snapshot copy is busy.

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