Clustered Data ONTAP® 8.2

Data Protection Guide

Updated for 8.2.1

Introduction to data protection
Methods of protecting data
Database protection
What a data loss disaster is
- Tools for protecting against data-loss disasters
Data protection in a SAN environment
Types of data protection policies
Planning your data protection strategy
Working with Snapshot copies
- What a Snapshot copy is
- User access to Snapshot copies
- Backup and recovery tasks you can perform with Snapshot copies
- Maximum number of Snapshot copies
- Where to find information about Snapshot copies of Infinite Volumes
- Creation of Snapshot copy schedules
- Deleting Snapshot copies automatically
- Viewing settings for the automatic deletion of Snapshot copies
- What Snapshot disk consumption is
  - How Snapshot copies consume disk space
  - How changing file content consumes disk space
- What the Snapshot copy reserve is
Working with mirroring technology
- Components of a mirror relationship
- Data protection mirror relationships for FlexVol volumes
- Where to find information about data protection mirror relationships for Infinite Volumes
- When a destination volume grows automatically
- Path name pattern matching
- Language setting requirement
- User access to destination volumes
  - When clients can access the active file system on the destination FlexVol volume
- Guidelines for creating relationships between clusters or SVMs
- Limitations for data protection mirror relationships
Working with FlexVol volume SnapVault backups
- What a SnapVault backup is
- Which data gets backed up and restored from a SnapVault backup
- Which data does not get backed up to a SnapVault backup
- How a SnapVault backup works
- How SnapVault backups work with data compression
- SnapVault backup limitations
- Data protection for Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) namespace and root information
- Guidelines for planning Snapshot copy schedule and retention for SnapVault backups
Supported data protection deployment configurations
- What a basic backup deployment is
- Firewall requirements for intercluster SnapMirror relationships
- What source-to-destination-to-tape backup is
- How a mirror-mirror cascade works
- How a mirror-SnapVault cascade works
- How a SnapVault-SnapMirror cascade works
- How a mirror-SnapVault fanout works
- How a multiple-mirrors fanout works
Protecting data using Snapshot copies
Managing Snapshot copies
- Commands for managing Snapshot copies
Managing Snapshot policies
- How Snapshot policies are associated with volumes
- Commands for managing Snapshot policies and schedules
- Strategies for creating a Snapshot copy policy
- Naming convention for scheduled Snapshot copies
- What prefixes are
- Using prefixes to name automatic Snapshot copies
Restoring files from the Snapshot copy of a FlexVol volume
- Restoring a single file from a Snapshot copy of a FlexVol volume
- Restoring part of a file from a Snapshot copy of a FlexVol volume
Restoring the contents of a volume from a Snapshot copy
Snapshot restoration using Shadow Copy Client tools
Managing Snapshot copy disk space
- Monitoring Snapshot copy disk consumption
Managing data protection using SnapMirror policies
Commands for managing mirror and SnapVault policies
How SnapMirror policies work with clusters and Storage Virtual Machines (SVMs)
Comparison of what cluster administrators and Storage Virtual Machine (SVM) administrators can manage
Guidelines for naming Snapmirror and SnapVault policies
Preserving Snapshot copies for SnapVault relationships after reaching retention limit
Example of creating a tiered backup policy
Providing disaster recovery using mirroring technology
Managing data protection mirror copies for FlexVol volumes
- Creating a data protection mirror copy for FlexVol volumes
- Correcting a SnapMirror initialization failure
Managing mirror relationships
- Commands for managing SnapMirror relationships
- Using extended queries to operate on many SnapMirror relationships
- What tape seeding is
- Performing tape seeding using SMTape
- Scalability limits for SMTape backup and restore sessions
- Listing the schedule state of a mirror relationship
- Scheduling SnapMirror transfers
- Changing mirror relationship schedules
- Manually updating data protection mirror copies on destination volumes
Deleting a mirror copy
Reversing the data protection mirror relationship when disaster occurs
Converting a data protection mirror destination to a writeable volume
Testing database applications
Protecting data on FlexVol volumes by using SnapVault backups
Creating SnapVault backups on FlexVol volumes
- Guidelines for creating SnapVault relationships on FlexVol volumes
- SnapVault updates fail if destination aggregate is full
- Prepopulated SnapVault secondary scenarios
- Creating a SnapVault backup in an empty FlexVol volume
- Creating the SnapVault relationship of a mirror-SnapVault cascade
- Preserving a Snapshot copy on the primary source volume
- Creating a SnapVault backup in a prepopulated FlexVol volume
- Creating a destination baseline using a tape backup
- Converting a data protection destination to a SnapVault secondary
Managing backup and restore operations for SnapVault backups
- Backing up from a Snapshot copy that is older than the base Snapshot copy
  - How an out-of-order Snapshot copy transfer works
- Backing up FlexVol volumes that contain the maximum limit of Snapshot copies
- Managing the backup of a copied source volume
- Guidelines for restoring the active file system
- Guidelines for restoring LUNs in SAN environments
- How restore operations work from a SnapVault backup
- Restoring a volume from a SnapVault backup
- Managing a SnapVault-mirror cascade when the SnapVault backup is unavailable
Managing storage efficiency for SnapVault secondaries
- Guidelines for managing storage efficiency for SnapVault backups
- Enabling storage efficiency on a SnapVault secondary volume
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