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Unity 400/500 Only Allows 31 Days of Snapshot Retention
I have Unity arrays that are running firmware 4.4.1. I have a need to retain 35 days of snaps for any block volume or file system. The GUI only allows me to retain 31 days of snaps. Is there a way to retain 35 days? Perhaps from the CLI? The GUI also only allows me to assign 1 snap schedule per volume. Perhaps assign multiple schedules somehow?
Thanks.
DELL_ChrisHolloway
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January 18th, 2019 01:00
Yes you can do this from the CLI.
For example of a weekly snap at 2000 on a Sunday, kept for 35 days:
uemcli -d -u admin -p /sys/task/rule create -schedName chris_test -type weekdayslist -days sun -at 20:00 -keepFor 35d
Storage system address:
Storage system port: 443
HTTPS connection
ID = SchedRule_57
Schedule ID = snapSch_4
Operation completed successfully.
>uemcli -d -u admin -p /sys/task/rule -id SchedRule_57 show
Storage system address:
Storage system port: 443
HTTPS connection
1: ID = SchedRule_57
Type = WeekDaysList
Frequency = Every Sun at 20:00
Keep for = 35d
Allow auto-delete = no
Access = Checkpoint
Just modify the schedule as appropriate. Full syntax is in the UMECLI guide on the support site.