VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 User's Guide - VERITAS Enterprise Administrator (September 2004)

File System Tasks
Creating a Snapshot Copy of a File System
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After you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box, click
OK.
NOTE
• The File System Snapshot task requires a file system name, a
snapshot mount point, and a snapshot size.
• The File System Snapshot task is only available for VxFS file
systems.
• The snapshot file system is an exact copy of the original file system
at the time the snapshot was created.
• After you create the snapshot copy of the file system, remember to
back it up to tape or some other media. Remove the snapshot file
system when it is no longer needed.
• Users can continue to use the original file system during this
snapshot backup procedure.
• Refer to the VERITAS File System Administrator’s Guide for
guidelines on choosing the snapshot file system size.
Select disks to use
for the volume:
Select the disks for Volume screen.
The default setting is for Volume Manager to
assign the disks for you. To manually select the
disks, click the Manually select which
disks to use for volume radio button. The
disks that you select should be in the right
pane when you click Apply.
Cluster node
(displayed only if
your node is part of
a cluster):
If your node is part of a cluster, you can now
select the node in the cluster to contain the file
system.
If the node you select is not displayed in the
current window, then it resides on a remote
node. In order to remove this snapshot, you will
have to open the remote node and display the
created file system before removing it.