Reestablishing backup and standby protection for SnapVault

To reestablish SnapMirror backup and standby protection for the new SnapVault secondary storage system, you need to perform an initial SnapMirror transfer from the SnapVault secondary to a new volume.

Step

1. To perform an initial SnapMirror transfer from the new SnapVault secondary volume to the new volume, enter the following command: snapmirror initialize
   Note: For more information on setting up a basic SnapMirror operation, see the Data ONTAP Data Protection Online Backup and Recovery Guide.
   Attention: Using the snapmirror initialize command destroys all existing data on the new volumes.
   Note: If you are able to use your original SnapVault secondary volumes as the new SnapMirror destinations and you used volume cloning to go beyond 255 Snapshot copies, which is the limit imposed on a volume by Data ONTAP, the original SnapVault secondary volumes might not be large enough to accommodate the replication. If this is the case, you can add disk space to the original SnapVault secondary volumes.