Exclude volumes from an ONTAP SVM DR relationship

01/24/2025 Contributors

By default, all RW data volumes of the source SVM are replicated. If you do not want to protect all the volumes on the source SVM, you can use the -vserver-dr-protection unprotected option of the volume modify command to exclude volumes from SVM replication.

Steps

Exclude a volume from SVM replication:

volume modify -vserver SVM -volume volume -vserver-dr-protection unprotected

Learn more about volume modify in the ONTAP command reference.

The following example excludes the volume volA_src from SVM replication:
```
cluster_src::> volume modify -vserver SVM1 -volume volA_src -vserver-dr-protection unprotected
```
If you later want to include a volume in the SVM replication that you originally excluded, run the following command:

volume modify -vserver SVM -volume volume -vserver-dr-protection protected

The following example includes the volume volA_src in the SVM replication:
```
cluster_src::> volume modify -vserver SVM1 -volume volA_src -vserver-dr-protection protected
```
Create and initialize the SVM replication relationship as described in Replicating an entire SVM configuration.

Exclude volumes from an ONTAP SVM DR relationship

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