Setting up backup and standby protection for SnapVault

You can set up the SnapMirror backup and standby protection for the SnapVault secondary storage system and fail over to the standby system, if needed.

Steps

1. To confirm that the SnapVault secondary storage device has both SnapVault secondary storage and SnapMirror features licensed, enter the following command:license
2. To confirm that the SnapMirror destination device has both the SnapVault secondary storage and SnapMirror features licensed, enter the following command:license
3. Set up SnapMirror replication from the active SnapVault secondary storage system to a disk-based destination device (another storage or NearStore system).

   For more information about setting up a SnapMirror relationship with a disk-based destination device, see the Data ONTAP Data Protection Online Backup and Recovery Guide.

4. If the active SnapVault secondary storage system is damaged or destroyed, convert the SnapMirror destination device to an alternate SnapVault secondary system to carry on the task of backing up data from the primary storage systems.

   For details on converting a SnapMirror destination to a writable volume, see the Data ONTAP Data Protection Online Backup and Recovery Guide.

5. Activate the SnapVault license on the new SnapVault systems, and use the snapvault start and snapvault snap sched commands to complete configuration of the new SnapVault secondary storage system.
6. As an optional step, you can return the storage systems to their original configuration.