Managing HP X9000 Native Filesystem Snapshots Application Note (TA768-96048, October 2011)

Managing snapshots with the CLI
Use the ibrix_snap and ibrix_snapreclamation commands to manage snapshots. You cannot
use the CLI to create schedules for snapshots or snapshot reclamation tasks.
Creating a snap tree
Use ibrix_snap -m to create a snap tree:
[root@x9000n1 ~]# ibrix_snap -m -f ibfs1 -P /ibfs1/users
Creating snap tree /ibfs1/users on file system ibfs1
The response is: createSnapTree Success
Command succeeded!
Use ibrix_snap -l to list current snap trees:
[root@x9000n1 ~]# ibrix_snap -l
file system Snap Tree Path Monthly Retention Weekly Retention Hourly Retention Daily Retention
---------- -------------- ----------------- ---------------- ---------------- ---------------
ibfs1 /ibfs1/users 0 0 0 0
Use the GUI to create a snapshot schedule for the snap tree.
Creating an on-demand snapshot
When creating an on-demand snapshot, use the -n option to provide a custom name to append to
ISO 8601-derived name. In this example, the custom name is snap1:
[root@x9000n1 ~]# ibrix_snap -c -f ibfs1 -P /ibfs1/users -n snap1
Creating native snapshot of users on file system ibfs1
The response is: createSnapshot Success
Command succeeded!
Use the following command to list snapshots:
[root@x9000n1 ~]# ibrix_snap -l -s
file system Snapshot Name Snap Tree Path
---------- ----------------------- --------------
ibfs1 2011-05-31T143154_snap1 /ibfs1/users
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