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How To Create A Snapshot Retention Policy in Clustered Data ONTAP Using The CLI

This document provides steps to create a snapshot retention policy in Clustered Data ONTAP using the CLI: 1. Create a cron schedule to automatically trigger snapshots at certain times, such as daily at 11pm or weekly on Sundays. 2. Create a snapshot policy and specify the cron schedule, number of snapshots to retain, and snapshot name prefixes. For example, to keep 2 daily and 2 weekly snapshots. 3. Associate the snapshot policy with a volume to apply the retention rules to automatically triggered snapshots for that volume.

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How To Create A Snapshot Retention Policy in Clustered Data ONTAP Using The CLI

This document provides steps to create a snapshot retention policy in Clustered Data ONTAP using the CLI: 1. Create a cron schedule to automatically trigger snapshots at certain times, such as daily at 11pm or weekly on Sundays. 2. Create a snapshot policy and specify the cron schedule, number of snapshots to retain, and snapshot name prefixes. For example, to keep 2 daily and 2 weekly snapshots. 3. Associate the snapshot policy with a volume to apply the retention rules to automatically triggered snapshots for that volume.

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How to create a snapshot retention policy in

clustered Data ONTAP using the CLI


Sep 29, 2016How To
Article Number
000027844
Description

Environment:
Product Model: FAS6240-R5
OS: Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2P5

This article describes the procedure that should be followed to create a retention policy for
automatically triggered snapshots in clustered Data ONTAP using the CLI.

Procedure

Perform the following steps to create a retention policy for automatically generated snapshots
from the system CLI:

1. Create a 'cron schedule' that will run at a certain time:


Example:
'job schedule cron create -name dailySnap -hour 23 -minute 0'
(creates a schedule that will be run every day at 11 p.m)
'job schedule cron create -name weeklySnap -dayofweek Sunday -minute
0' (creates a schedule that will be run every Sunday)
Note: The 'minute' flag MUST be used to create the schedule.
For more information on creating a cron schedule, see the Data ONTAP 8.2
Reference Manual.

2. Create a snapshot policy that will be assigned to a volume:


Example:
'volume snapshot policy create -policy 2days2weeks -enabled true
-schedule1 dailySnap -count1 2 -prefix1 dailySnap -schedule2
weeklySnap -count2 2 -prefix2 weeklySnap' (creates a policy that keeps two
daily snapshots and two weekly snapshots)
For more information on creating a snapshot policy, see the Data ONTAP 8.2
Reference Manual.

3. Associate the policy with a created volume:


Example:
'volume modify -volume volName -vserver vserverName -snapshot-policy
2days2weeks'
Volume volName now has a snapshot policy that will retain only two daily snapshots
and two weekly snapshots.
Note: Snapshot policies cannot be created for manually triggered snapshots.
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