Enabling SnapVault

What you need to do to enable SnapVault

You need to complete the following tasks to activate SnapVault:

Enter the license code on both the secondary storage system and the primary storage system.
Turn on the options snapvault.enable option for both the secondary storage system and the primary storage system. Setting this option enables SnapVault data transfers and snapshot creation.
Set the options snapvault.access option on both the secondary storage system and the primary storage system to allow primary storage system and secondary storage system access.
- Setting this option on the SnapVault secondary storage system determines which SnapVault primary storage systems can access the secondary storage system.
- Setting this option on the SnapVault primary storage system determines which secondary storage system can access data from that primary storage system.
  Note
  The descriptions and procedures in this section pertain to SnapVault backup of NetApp filers only. For SnapVault backup of Open Systems drives and directories, see Setting up SnapVault backup on Open Systems platforms and Managing SnapVault backup of Open Systems platforms.

Entering license codes

Enter the SnapVault secondary storage system license code on the filer that is to be the secondary storage system, and enter the separate SnapVault primary storage system license code on the filer that is to be the primary storage system.

Note
You cannot license the SnapVault secondary storage system and the SnapVault primary storage system on the same filer.

To enter the SnapVault secondary storage system license code, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	On the secondary storage system, enter the following command: license add xxxxxxx xxxxxxx is the license code you purchased. This setting persists across reboots.

To enter the SnapVault primary storage system license code, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	On the primary storage system, enter the following command: license add xxxxxxx xxxxxxx is the license code you purchased. This setting persists across reboots.

For more information about entering license codes, see the information about licensing in Chapter 1 of the System Administrator's Guide.

Setting the enable option

To set the enable option, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	On both the primary storage system and the secondary storage system, enter the following command: options snapvault.enable on This option persists across reboots.

Setting the access option

The snapvault.access option controls which filers can request data transfers. This option persists across reboots.

On the filer primary storage system

To set the primary storage systems to grant access only to the secondary storage system, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	On the primary storage system, enter the following command: options snapvault.access host=snapvault_secondary The filer must be able to resolve the host name entered as snapvault_secondary to an IP address in the /etc/hosts file, or else the filer needs to be running DNS or NIS. Alternatively, you can use the literal IP address instead of the host name. See the na_protocolaccess(8) man page for details. For more information about the `options` command, see the na_options(1) man page.

Step

Action

On the primary storage system, enter the following command:

options snapvault.access host=snapvault_secondary

The filer must be able to resolve the host name entered as snapvault_secondary to an IP address in the /etc/hosts file, or else the filer needs to be running DNS or NIS. Alternatively, you can use the literal IP address instead of the host name. See the na_protocolaccess(8) man page for details. For more information about the options command, see the na_options(1) man page.

Example

filerB> options snapvault.access host=filerA

On the secondary storage system

To allow the primary storage systems to restore data from the secondary storage system, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	On the secondary storage system, enter the following command: *options snapvault.access host=snapvault_primary1, snapvault_primary2* ...** The filer must be able to resolve the host name entered as snapvault_primary to an IP address in the /etc/hosts file, or else the filer needs to be running DNS or NIS. Alternatively, you can use the literal IP address instead of the host name. The syntax for specifying which filers are allowed access to the secondary storage system is described in the na_protocolaccess(8) man page. For more information about the `options` command, see the na_options(1) man page.

Step

Action

On the secondary storage system, enter the following command:

options snapvault.access host=snapvault_primary1, 
snapvault_primary2 ...

The filer must be able to resolve the host name entered as snapvault_primary to an IP address in the /etc/hosts file, or else the filer needs to be running DNS or NIS. Alternatively, you can use the literal IP address instead of the host name.

The syntax for specifying which filers are allowed access to the secondary storage system is described in the na_protocolaccess(8) man page. For more information about the options command, see the na_options(1) man page.

Example

filerA> options snapvault.access host=filerB,filerC

Note
To grant access to any requester, enter options snapvault.access all. For security reasons, this configuration is not recommended.