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Required changes to Snapshot copy default settings

When you create a volume, Data ONTAP automatically schedules Snapshot copies and reserves space for them. You must modify these default settings to ensure that overwrites to LUNs in the volume do not fail.

Data ONTAP Snapshot copies are the basis of many optional features, such as the SnapMirror feature, SyncMirror feature, and tape backup features.

Data ONTAP automatically performs the following operations:

Because the internal scheduling mechanism for taking Snapshot copies within Data ONTAP has no means of ensuring that the data within a LUN is in a consistent state, you should change these Snapshot copy settings by performing the following tasks:

When finished, you must ensure that the create_ucode volume is enabled.