Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 Advanced Features Administrator"s Guide (5900-1503, April 2011)

Creating multiple instant snapshots ........................................ 228
Creating instant snapshots of volume sets ................................ 229
Adding snapshot mirrors to a volume ....................................... 231
Removing a snapshot mirror .................................................. 232
Removing a linked break-off snapshot volume ........................... 232
Adding a snapshot to a cascaded snapshot hierarchy .................. 232
Refreshing an instant snapshot ............................................... 233
Reattaching an instant snapshot ............................................. 233
Reattaching a linked break-off snapshot volume ........................ 234
Restoring a volume from an instant snapshot ............................ 235
Dissociating an instant snapshot ............................................. 236
Removing an instant snapshot ................................................ 236
Splitting an instant snapshot hierarchy .................................... 237
Displaying instant snapshot information .................................. 237
Controlling instant snapshot synchronization ........................... 239
Listing the snapshots created on a cache ................................... 241
Tuning the autogrow attributes of a cache ................................ 241
Monitoring and displaying cache usage .................................... 242
Growing and shrinking a cache ............................................... 243
Removing a cache ................................................................. 244
Creating traditional third-mirror break-off snapshots ....................... 244
Converting a plex into a snapshot plex ..................................... 248
Creating multiple snapshots with the vxassist command ............. 249
Reattaching a snapshot volume ............................................... 250
Adding plexes to a snapshot volume ......................................... 251
Dissociating a snapshot volume .............................................. 252
Displaying snapshot information ............................................ 252
Adding a version 0 DCO and DCO volume ........................................ 253
Specifying storage for version 0 DCO plexes .............................. 255
Removing a version 0 DCO and DCO volume .............................. 257
Reattaching a version 0 DCO and DCO volume ........................... 257
Chapter 18 Administering snapshot file systems ............................ 259
About snapshot file systems ......................................................... 259
How a snapshot file system works ................................................. 260
Snapshot file system backups ....................................................... 261
Snapshot file system performance ................................................. 262
About snapshot file system disk structure ....................................... 262
Differences between snapshots and Storage Checkpoints ................... 263
Creating a snapshot file system ..................................................... 264
Backup examples ........................................................................ 265
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