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Dell Storage Manager 2020 R1 Administrator's Guide

Create a Snapshot

You can create a snapshot of a single volume at the current time. Snapshot creation occurs immediately, with no impact on volume availability or performance.

Steps

  1. Click the Storage view.
  2. In the Storage pane, select a PS Series group.
  3. Click the Storage tab.
  4. In the Storage tab navigation pane, select a volume.
  5. In the right pane, click Create Snapshot. The Create Snapshot dialog box opens.
  6. (Optional) In the Description field, type a description for the snapshot.
  7. To set the snapshot online after it is created, select the Set snapshot online checkbox.
  8. To give read-write permissions to the snapshot, select the Make snapshot read-write checkbox.
  9. Click OK.

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