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Enable and edit snapshots for long-term retention

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Enable snapshots for long-term retention lets you replicate specific snapshots for long-term disaster recovery.

Long-term retention enables business services to continue operating even through a complete site failure, supporting applications to fail over transparently using a secondary copy.

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

Steps

  1. Log in to the Workload Factory console

  2. In Storage, select Go to storage inventory.

  3. In the FSx for ONTAP tab, click the three dots 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, click the three dots 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, click 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. For an existing policy, select an existing policy 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. Click Apply.