Why you create a Snapshot copy manually

You might create a manual (unscheduled) Snapshot copy for the following reasons:

You anticipate planned downtime or you need to recover from downtime (during which a Snapshot copy was not taken on time).
You have just carried out a manual update of a secondary qtree, and you want to immediately incorporate that update into the retained Snapshot copies on the secondary storage system.

Note: The descriptions and procedures pertain to SnapVault backup of storage systems running Data ONTAP only. For descriptions and procedures pertaining to SnapVault backup of Open Systems drives and directories, see the Open Systems SnapVault documentation.

Creating a Snapshot copy manually
You run the snapvault snap create command on the SnapVault primary storage system or SnapVault secondary storage system containing the volume on which you want to create the Snapshot copy.

Parent topic: Data protection using SnapVault