Managing Snapshots

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

The snapshot management page contains information about the snapshots that currently reside in the volumes on your filer. Snapshots 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 resides.

Name

Name of the snapshot. For each snapshot created automatically, the name contains a numeric suffix, which begins at 0. The more recent the snapshot, the smaller the number. When the filer deletes a snapshot, it renumbers the existing snapshots.

Date

Date and time the snapshot was created.

Used

The disk space consumed by the snapshot.

Total

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

Status

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