NAS Snapshot Backup & Retention Policy

Storage Operations - April 2014

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 Guideline

. PROD SNAP Reserve : 0% (Volume e.g. ORADATA,ARCH,REDO,REDO_MIRROR,VIF)

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. PROD SNAP Reserve : 1% (NDMP,SNAPMIRROR,CLONE,DUMP etc. )

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. PROD SNAP Reserve : 5% [AUTO SNAP(4 hourly snaps with 3 days retention , 0 0 12@0,6,12,18 ) / MANUAL ]
(Only incase of special request)

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. NPRD SNAP Reserve : 0 % (if no specific request)

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. NPRD SNAP Reserve : 5 % (Only incase of Special Request , e.g. ERMO)

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. ENABLE SNAP AUTODELETE on all volume

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 Snapshot AutoDelete
Snapshot automatic delete determines when (or if) Snapshot copies are
automatically deleted.

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The option is set at the volume level:

snap autodelete vol [on|off|show|reset]

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If autodelete is enabled, options are available:

system> snap autodelete vol option value
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Options

Values

commitment



disrupt

trigger




volume

target_free_space

20

delete_order


oldest_first

defer_delete



user_created

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 commitment { disrupt }

Setting this option to disrupt only permits the snapshots which are not locked by data backing functionalities (volume and LUN
clones) to be deleted.

trigger { volume }

This option determines the condition which starts the automatic deletion of snapshots. Setting the option to volume triggers
snapshot delete when the volume reaches 98% capacity and the volume's snap reserve has been exceeded.

target_free_space 20

This option determines the condition when snapshot autodeletion should stop (once started). The value is a percentage. Depending
on the trigger, snapshots are deleted till the free space reaches the target_free_space percentage.

delete_order { oldest_first }

This option determines the oldest snapshots will be deleted first.

defer_delete { scheduled | user_created | none }

This deletion of a particular kind of snapshot can be defered to the end. Setting this option value to scheduled will delete the
snapshots created by the snapshot scheduler last. Setting this option value to user_created will delete the snapshots not created by
the scheduler last. Setting the option to none will set all snapshot eligible for deletion right away.

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