SnapManager® 7.2.2 for Microsoft® SQL Server®
Administration Guide
Product overview
Backing up and verifying your databases
SnapManager backup overview
Two ways that SnapManager performs full database backups
How SnapManager updates the SnapInfo directory
How SnapManager checks database integrity in backup sets
Prerequisites for VMDK verification or cloning on SnapMirror destination volumes
Formatting requirements for the change list file
Replacing destination data store UUIDs for VMFS data stores
Defining a backup strategy
Backing up your databases for the first time
Verifying the initial backup set
Scheduling recurring backups
Scheduling recurring transaction log backups
Scheduling recurring backup set verifications
Managing backup retention
Maximum number of Snapshot copies per volume
Automatically deleting backups
Explicitly deleting backups
Considerations for configuring Availability Groups
Managing transaction log backups of Availability Group databases
Changing the backup management group of an existing backup set
What to do if a SnapManager backup operation fails
Restoring databases
How SnapManager a restore operation works
Types of SnapManager restore operations
Sources and destinations for a SnapManager restore
Transaction log backups from SQL Server Management Studio
Post-restore database recovery states
Requirements for restoring a database
Finding backup sets
Restoring a database from a local backup set
Addressing system database failure using Activity Monitor
Restoring a database from a backup set created on a different server
Restoring replicated, publisher, and subscriber databases
Reseeding a database on an Availability Group
Recovering databases using archived backup sets
Recovering databases using SnapMirror
Recovering databases on VMDKs using SnapMirror
Preparing the primary site for recovery
Preparing the secondary site for recovery
Recovering databases from the secondary site
Cloning databases
Cloning limitations for VMDKs
Prerequisites for VMDK verification or cloning on SnapMirror destination volumes
Formatting requirements for the change list file
Replacing destination data store UUIDs for VMFS data stores
Cloning a database from a local backup or an archived backup
Cloning a database that is in production
Creating a clone replica of an AlwaysOn cluster
Cloning an already cloned database
Splitting a cloned database
Deleting cloned databases
Using SnapManager reports
Viewing SnapManager reports
Configuring monitoring and reporting settings
Changing the location of the SnapManager report directory
Modifying your database configuration on NetApp storage
Moving multiple SnapInfo directories to a single SnapInfo directory
Migrating SQL Server databases back to local disks
Setting up a SnapManager share for centralized backups of transaction logs
Importing or exporting database configurations using a control file
Sample XML schema for the control file settings
Configuring SnapManager application settings
Modifying backup settings
Modifying verification settings
Modifying restore settings
Modifying event notification settings
Setting defaults for preoperation and postoperation commands
SnapManager arguments for preoperation and postoperation commands
Enabling SnapManager to allow databases on any LUN or VMDK configuration
Viewing fractional space reservation status
Configuring fractional space reservation policies
Advanced administration
Maximum configurations supported by SnapManager
Service account requirements for archiving backup sets with SnapVault (7-Mode environments only)
SnapManager disk requirements in a Windows cluster using LUNs
Upgrading SnapManager
Upgrading SnapManager interactively
Upgrading SnapManager from a command line
Repairing, reinstalling, and uninstalling SnapManager
Repairing SnapManager
Reinstalling SnapManager
Uninstalling SnapManager
SnapManager cmdlet guidelines
clone-backup
clone-database
clone-replica
delete-backup
delete-clone
export-config
get-backup
import-config
new-backup
reseed-backup
restore-backup
split-clone
verify-backup
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