Starting a SnapVault backup relationship

Specifying data sets on primary storage systems

After you have enabled SnapVault on both your primary and secondary storage systems and have given primary and secondary systems access to each other, you must specify the qtrees or volumes whose data you want transferred from the primary storage system to the SnapVault secondary storage device, and you must perform a complete (baseline) transfer of data from primary storage system to secondary storage.

The snapvault start command configures the SnapVault relationship between primary qtrees or volumes and secondary qtrees by

Specifying the primary system qtrees or volumes to be backed up on the secondary system qtrees
Specifying parameters for the updates from the primary qtrees to the secondary system qtrees. The parameters include transfer speed and try count (the number of times SnapVault will attempt to start a transfer before stopping the operation).
Initiating the baseline transfer of the primary system qtree data to the secondary system qtree

Guidelines when creating a SnapVault relationship

The following are guidelines for volumes and qtrees in a SnapVault backup relationship:

Establish a SnapVault relationship between volumes that have the same vol lang settings.
Once you establish a SnapVault relationship, do not change the language assigned to the destination volume.
Avoid whitespace (space or tab characters) in names of source and destination qtrees.
Do not rename volumes or qtrees after establishing a SnapVault relationship.

For detailed information

The following sections discuss the backup relationships you can start: