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Dell PowerStore Protecting Your Data

Create a thin clone of a file system

About this task

You can perform the following actions on thin clones of volumes and volume groups:
  • Map thin clones to different hosts.
  • Restore the thin clone from a backup.
  • Apply protection policies to thin clones.

Steps

  1. Select Storage > File Systems to open the File Systems window.
  2. Click the check box next to the relevant file system and then select Protect > Clone File System
  3. In the Create Thin Clone slide-out window, set the thin clone name and, optionally, a description
  4. If events publishing was configured on the NAS server, you can select to enable events publishing.
  5. Click Clone.

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