Creating a snapshot manually

Why to create a snapshot manually

You might create a manual (unscheduled) snapshot for the following reasons:

You anticipate planned downtime or you need to recover from downtime (during which a snapshot was not taken on time).
You have just carried out a manual update of a secondary qtree, as described in Manually updating individual secondary storage system qtrees, and you want to immediately incorporate that update into the retained snapshots on the secondary storage system.
Note
The descriptions and procedures in this section pertain to SnapVault backup of NetApp filers only. For descriptions and procedures pertaining to 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.

How to create a snapshot manually

You run this command on the SnapVault primary storage system or SnapVault secondary storage system containing the volume on which you want to create the snapshot. To create a manual snapshot of a volume, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	From the primary storage system or secondary storage system, enter the following command: snapvault snap create volume_name snap_name volume_name is the name of the volume where the snapshot to be created will reside. snap_name is the basename of the snapshot to create. If there is already a snapshot being created in the volume at the time this command is invoked, this command will be carried out after the other snapshot is completed.

Step

Action

From the primary storage system or secondary storage system, enter the following command:

snapvault snap create volume_name snap_name

volume_name is the name of the volume where the snapshot to be created will reside.

snap_name is the basename of the snapshot to create.

If there is already a snapshot being created in the volume at the time this command is invoked, this command will be carried out after the other snapshot is completed.

Example

filerB> snapvault snap create vol1 sv_nightly

Result

SnapVault creates a new snapshot and, based on the specified snapshot basename, numbers it just as if that snapshot had been created by the SnapVault schedule process. SnapVault names the new snapshot sv_nightly.0, renames the older snapshots, and deletes the oldest sv_nightly snapshot.

Note
Unlike the snapvault snap sched -x command, the snapvault snap create command does not update the data in the secondary storage system qtree from the data in the primary storage system qtree prior to creating the new snapshot. If you want to update your secondary qtrees prior to running the snapvault snap create command, use the snapvault update command as described in Manually updating individual secondary storage system qtrees.