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When to customize naming of protection-related objects

To support backup tasks, storage administration tasks, and application administration tasks, you can customize naming of NetApp Management Console protection-related objects.

Custom naming and backup tasks

If you are a backup administrator, configuration of custom naming presents you with the following advantages:
  • Easy location of secondary and tertiary storage backup items for restoration

    Custom naming applied to Snapshot copies, secondary volumes, or secondary qtrees enables you to easily identify the backup objects in which to locate files for restoration.

  • Easy identification of backup data by an assortment of criteria

    Custom naming, configured with specific naming conventions and applied to the backup objects, enables you to identify those objects by priority, business unit, administrator, backup time, physical container, or logical container.

  • Customization of formats to maintain naming used by imported protection relationships

    Custom naming can be used by NetApp Management Console to assign naming formats for related objects that matches the related object naming conventions originally used by imported protection relationships.

  • Easy identification of backup data related to protection, SnapManager, or SnapDrive operations

    A consistent naming convention enables you to easily find the right data to restore even if that backup data is related to such disparate activities as NetApp Management Console protection operations, SnapManager activity, or SnapDrive activity.

  • Easy identification of source and secondary volumes in case of application shutdown

    If the database application that is generating the backed up data shuts down, the naming formats of the associated Snapshot copy, secondary volume, or secondary qtree objects, if set properly, enable you to identify primary volumes from the names of the secondary volumes and Snapshot copies that are associated with that application.

Custom naming and storage management tasks

If you are a storage administrator, configuration of custom naming enables you to specify a company-wide naming convention for related objects at the global level or at the dataset level.

Custom naming and application management tasks

If you are an application administrator and have specified a particular dataset in which to store data generated by a particular application, custom naming enables you to specify distinctive naming conventions for that dataset's related object types. The distinctive naming enables you to track the objects that are generated by that application more easily.