SnapVault is a Data ONTAP feature that provides a fast, efficient, and centralized backup solution for replicating Snapshot copies to a secondary storage system. There are several considerations you should remember when using the SnapVault feature with SnapDrive for Windows.
- You must have at least Data ONTAP 7.2.6 installed on your storage system.
- SnapVault must be licensed on the primary and secondary storage systems.
- SnapVault relationships must already be configured and initialized.
- A backup set might contain multiple primary storage systems and volumes, but only one secondary volume and storage system.
- Each backup set can span only one volume on a secondary storage system; if multiple volumes are required, the backup will fail.
- Only qtree SnapVault configurations are supported. SnapDrive does not support volume-based SnapVault.
- SnapVault cascaded configurations are not supported.
- There is no SnapVault restore feature.
