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Creating a new volume for retaining Snapshot copies

You need to create a new volume to retain more than 250 Snapshot copies.

Steps

  1. Ensure that everything on the old volume is in an appropriate state.
  2. Remove the SnapVault schedules for the old volume.
  3. Create a new volume by doing one of the following steps:

    • Create a volume clone to a new volume.
    • Copy the appropriate Snapshot copy to a new volume.

  4. Check or set the retention period on the new volume.
  5. Check volume options on the new volume.
  6. Restart all SnapVault relationships in the new volume.
  7. Reconfigure the SnapVault schedules in the new volume.
  8. Ensure that everything was migrated successfully. To do this, run a few Snapshot copy targets in the new volume.
  9. Stop all SnapVault relationships in the old volume.

    Note: Free Snapshot copies might be required to complete some operations. If you get an error message stating that the system has reached the Snapshot copy limit per volume, you need to find unnecessary Snapshot copies and delete them.