Skip to main content
Sign Out

Welcome to Dell

My Account
  • Place orders quickly and easily
  • View orders and track your shipping status
  • Enjoy members-only rewards and discounts
  • Create and access a list of your products
  • Manage your Dell EMC sites, products, and product-level contacts using Company Administration.
Sign In Create an Account Dell Financial Services Premier Sign In Partner Program Sign In
Contact Us

Your Dell.com Carts

Dell PowerStore Protecting Your Data

PDF

Create a snapshot of a file system

About this task

If you want to create a single snapshot of a file system (and not as a part of an assigned protection policy), use the Create Snapshot option.

Steps

  1. To open the Flie Systems window, select Storage > File Systems.
  2. Click the check box next to the relevant file system to select it and then select Protect > Create Snapshot.
  3. In the Create Snapshot of File System slide-out panel, enter a unique name for the snapshot, and set the Local Retention Policy.
    NOTE:Retention period is set to one week by default. You can set a different retention period or select the No Automatic Deletion for indefinite retention.
  4. Set the File Snapshot Access Type.
  5. If events publishing was configured on the NAS server, you can select to enable events publishing.
  6. Click Create Snapshot.

Rate this content

Accurate
Useful
Easy to understand
Was this article helpful?
0/3000 characters
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please provide ratings (1-5 stars).
  Please select whether the article was helpful or not.
  Comments cannot contain these special characters: <>()\