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Enable and edit snapshots for long-term retention

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In NetApp 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.

When an on-premises ONTAP cluster is the target for the replication relationship, changing snapshots for long-term retention isn't supported.

Steps

  1. Log in using one of the console experiences.

  2. In the Storage tile, select Go to Storage.

  3. From the Storage menu, select FSx for ONTAP.

  4. From FSx for ONTAP, select the actionsenu of the file system to update and then select Manage.

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

  6. In the Replication relationships tab, select the actions menu of the replication relationship schedule to change.

  7. Select Edit long-term retention.

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

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

  10. 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.

  11. Select Apply.