Managing User-Generated Snapshots

Disk-to-disk backup can also be achieved by setting the property Retain user-generated snapshots on target. User-generated snapshots, created on a source appliance, are replicated to a target which serves as an incremental-forever backup repository.

Setting this property allows you to manage user-generated snapshots independently on a source appliance and replication target. Normally, when you destroy user-generated snapshots on the source appliance, the snapshots are immediately destroyed at the replication target after a replication update. To keep user-generated snapshots on the target, set this property when creating or editing a replication action.

When user-generated snapshots are no longer needed, manually destroy them on the replication target. To destroy snapshots, see Destroying a Snapshot - BUI, CLI.