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Manage ONTAP data protection policies and schedules on ASA r2 storage systems

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Use snapshot policies to protect data in your consistency groups on an automated schedule. Use policy schedules within snapshot policies to determine how often snapshots are taken.

Create a new protection policy schedule

A protection policy schedule defines how often a snapshots policy is executed. You can create schedules to run in regular intervals based on a number of days, hours, or minutes. For example, you can create a schedule to run every hour or to run only once per day. You can also create schedules to run at specific times on specific days of the week or month. For example, you can create a schedule to run at 12:15am on the 20th of every month.

Defining various protection policy schedules gives you the flexibility to increase or decrease the frequency of snapshots for different applications. This enables you to provide a greater level of protection and a lower risk of data loss for your critical workloads than what might be needed for less critical workloads.

Steps

  1. Select Protection > Policies; then select Schedule.

  2. Select a blue rectangle containing a plus sign followed by the word add in white letters.

  3. Enter a name for the schedule; then select the schedule parameters.

  4. Select Save.

What's next?

Now that you have created a new policy schedule, you can use the newly created schedule within your policies to define when snapshots are taken.

Create a snapshot policy

A snapshot policy defines how often snapshots are taken, the maximum number of snapshots allowed, and how long snapshots are retained.

Steps

  1. In System Manager, select Protection > Policies; then select Snapshot policies.

  2. Select blue rectangle containing a plus sign followed by the word add in white letters.

  3. Enter a name for the snapshot policy.

  4. Select Cluster to apply the policy to the entire cluster. Select Storage VM to apply the policy to an individual storage VM.

  5. Select Add a schedule; then enter the snapshot policy schedule.

  6. Select Add policy.

What's next?

Now that you have created a snapshot policy, you can apply it to a consistency group. Snapshots will be taken of the consistency group based on the parameters you set in your snapshot policy.

Apply a snapshot policy to a consistency group

Apply a snapshot policy to a consistency group to automatically create, retain, and label snapshots of the consistency group.

Steps

  1. In System Manager, select Protection > Policies; then select Snapshot policies.

  2. Hover over the name of the snapshot policy you want to apply.

  3. Select three vertical blue dots; then select Apply.

  4. Select the consistency groups to which you want to apply the snapshot policy; then select Apply.

What's next?

Now that your data is protected with snapshots, you should set up a replication relationship to copy your consistency groups to a geographically remote location for backup and disaster recovery.

Edit, delete, or disable a snapshot policy

Edit a snapshot policy to modify the policy name, maximum number of snapshots, or the SnapMirror label. Delete a policy to remove it and its associated back up data from your cluster. Disable a policy to temporarily stop the creation or transfer of snapshots specified by the policy.

Steps

  1. In System Manager, select Protection > Policies; then select Snapshot policies.

  2. Hover over the name of the snapshot policy you want to edit.

  3. Select three vertical blue dots; then select Edit, Delete, or Disable.

Result

You have modified, deleted or disabled the snapshot policy.

Edit a replication policy

Edit a replication policy to modify the policy description, transfer schedule, and rules. You can also edit the policy to enable or disable network compression.

Steps

  1. In System Manager, select Protection > Policies.

  2. Select Replication policies.

  3. Hover over the replication policy that you want to edit; then select three vertical blue dots.

  4. Select Edit.

  5. Update the policy; then select Save.

Result

You have modified the replication policy.