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Create a replication job schedule

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Whether you are replicating data from Element to ONTAP or from ONTAP to Element, you need to configure a job schedule, specify a policy, and create and initialize the relationship. You can use a default or custom policy.

Using the ONTAP CLI, you can create a replication job schedule by using the job schedule cron create command. The job schedule determines when SnapMirror automatically updates the data protection relationship to which the schedule is assigned.

About this task

You assign a job schedule when you create a data protection relationship. If you do not assign a job schedule, you must update the relationship manually.

Step

  1. Create a job schedule:

    job schedule cron create -name job_name -month month -dayofweek day_of_week -day day_of_month -hour hour -minute minute

    For -month, -dayofweek, and -hour, you can specify all to run the job every month, day of the week, and hour, respectively.

    Beginning with ONTAP 9.10.1, you can include the Vserver for your job schedule:

    job schedule cron create -name job_name -vserver Vserver_name -month month -dayofweek day_of_week -day day_of_month -hour hour -minute minute

    The following example creates a job schedule named my_weekly that runs on Saturdays at 3:00 a.m.:

    cluster_dst::> job schedule cron create -name my_weekly -dayofweek "Saturday" -hour 3 -minute 0