Managing data protection

You can use System Manager to protect your data by creating and managing mirror relationships, vault relationships, and mirror and vault relationships. You can also create and manage the Snapshot policies and schedules.

Mirror relationships
You can use System Manager to create and manage mirror relationships by using the mirror policy.
Vault relationships
You can use System Manager to create and manage vault relationships by using the vault policy.
Mirror and vault relationships
You can use System Manager to create and manage mirror and vault relationships by using the mirror and vault policy.
What lag time is
Lag time is the amount of time by which the destination system lags behind the source system.
Types of data protection relationships
Depending on your data protection and backup requirements, OnCommand System Manager provides different types of protection relationships that enable you to protect data against accidental, malicious, or disaster-induced loss of data.
Understanding workloads supported by StrictSync and Sync policies
StrictSync and Sync policies support all LUN based applications with FC and iSCSI protocols, as well as NFSv3 protocol for enterprise applications such as databases, VMWare, and so on.
SnapMirror licensing
With the introduction of ONTAP 9.3, licensing has been simplified for replicating between ONTAP instances. In ONTAP 9 releases, the SnapMirror license supports both vault and mirror relationships. Users can now purchase a SnapMirror license to support ONTAP replication for both backup and disaster recovery use cases.
Protection window
You can use the Protection window to create and manage mirror relationships, vault relationships, and mirror and vault relationships and to display details about these relationships. The Protection window does not display load-sharing (LS) relationships and transition data protection (TDP) relationships.
SVM Relationships
Storage virtual machine (SVM) disaster recovery (DR) provides disaster recovery capability at the SVM level by enabling the recovery of the data that is present in the constituent volumes of the SVM and the recovery of the SVM configuration.
Protection policies
You can use System Manager to create, edit, and delete protection policies.
Snapshot policies
You can use System Manager to create and manage Snapshot policies in your storage system.
Schedules
You can use System Manager to create and manage schedules in your storage system.