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Enable and edit snapshots for long-term retention

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In BlueXP workload factory, you can enable snapshots for long-term retention, which lets you replicate specific snapshots for long-term disaster recovery.

Long-term retention enables business services to continue operating even in the event of a complete site failure, supporting transparent failover of applications using a secondary copy.

The same steps apply for enabling and editing snapshots for long-term retention.

Steps

  1. Log in using one of the console experiences.

  2. In Storage, select Go to storage inventory.

  3. In the FSx for ONTAP tab, select the three-dot menu of the file system to update and then select Manage.

  4. From the file system overview, select the Replication relationships tab.

  5. In the Replication relationships tab, select the three-dot menu of the replication relationship schedule to change.

  6. Select Edit long-term retention.

  7. In the Edit long-term retention dialog, enable or disable snapshots for long-term retention.

  8. If you select to disable snapshots for long-term retention, select Apply to complete this operation.

  9. If you select to enable snapshots for long-term retention, choose between selecting an existing policy or creating a new policy.

    1. To use an existing policy, select it from the dropdown menu.

    2. To create a new policy, provide the following:

      1. Policy name: Enter a policy name.

      2. Snapshot policies: Select one or more snapshot policies.

      3. Copies to retain: Enter the number of snapshot copies to retain on the target file system.

  10. Select Apply.