Data ONTAP 7.3 Archive and Compliance Management Guide

• Copyright information
• Trademark information
• About this guide
• Audience
• Accessing Data ONTAP man pages
• Terminology
• FilerView as an alternative to the command-line interface
• Command, keyboard, and typographic conventions
• Special messages
• What SnapLock is
• What SnapLock volumes are
• How SnapLock works
• Issues in reverting to Data ONTAP 7.3 if you have SnapLock volumes
  • Recovering from the halt caused by SnapLock
• Hardware platforms supported for SnapLock
• How to license SnapLock
  • Licensing SnapLock functionality
• SnapLock support for AutoSupport
• Creating SnapLock volumes
  • Creating SnapLock traditional volumes
  • Creating SnapLock aggregates and their flexible volumes
• SnapLock Compliance write verification option
  • Using the SnapLock Compliance write verification option
• How SnapLock Compliance meets WORM data requirements
• What the ComplianceClock is
• When to use the ComplianceClock
• Initializing the ComplianceClock feature
• Viewing the ComplianceClock time
• How the ComplianceClock stays synchronized with the system clock
• SnapLock ComplianceClock considerations with qtree SnapMirror
• How a WORM file works
• How to manage WORM data
  • Transitioning data to the WORM state and setting the retention date
  • Extending the retention date of a WORM file
  • Determining the WORM status of a file
  • What the WORM append file is
  • Creating a WORM append file
• How SnapLock automatically commits files to WORM state
  • Setting the time delay before automatically committing to the WORM state
  • Displaying the time delay before files are automatically committed
• What the retention period is
• How the SnapLock volume retention period works
  • Viewing the retention period of a volume
  • What the minimum retention period is
  • Setting the minimum retention period
  • What the maximum retention period is
  • Setting the maximum retention period
  • What the default retention period is
  • Setting the default retention period
• What the privileged delete feature is
• How privileged delete works
• Limitations of the privileged delete functionality
• Ensuring secure connection to the storage system
• Enabling privileged delete functionality
• Disabling privileged delete functionality
• Deleting a WORM file using privileged delete
• How privileged delete affects mirroring interactions
• What SnapLock logging is
• Types of SnapLock log files
• Advantages of SnapLock logging
• Limitations of SnapLock logging
• Assigning a SnapLock log volume
• How archiving a log file works
• Archiving log files
• Finding the status of the SnapLock log file
• What the SnapLock log file contains
• Upgrade and revert considerations for SnapLock logging
• How Data ONTAP tracks the deleted files on SnapLock volumes
• Destroying SnapLock volumes
• Destroying aggregates
• How SnapLock uses fingerprints
• How a fingerprint is calculated
• Input parameters for the fingerprint operation
• Calculating the fingerprint of a file
• Output parameters for the fingerprint operation
• SnapLock interaction with a vFiler unit
• Creating the root of a vFiler unit from a SnapLock volume to a non-SnapLock volume
• Limitations of vFiler units on SnapLock volumes
• SnapLock interaction with active/active configuration
• Protecting your SnapLock volumes with SnapMirror
• SnapLock qtree SnapMirror resynchronization restrictions
• What the dump file is
• Extracting files from the dump file after a qtree SnapMirror resynchronization
• How to set an end-to-end SnapLock Compliance volume SnapMirror relationship
• Limitations of the SnapMirror relationship
• Creating a volume SnapMirror relationship for a FlexVol volume
• Creating a volume SnapMirror relationship for a traditional volume
• Creating a SnapLock Compliance SnapMirror relationship
• The SnapLock for SnapVault feature—secure SnapVault destination
• Upgrade and revert issue related to the SnapLock for SnapVault feature
• Guidelines for using the SnapLock for SnapVault feature
• Aspects of capacity planning
  • Guidelines for estimating SnapVault secondary storage system volume size
  • Estimating the log volume size
• How to set up SnapVault backups
  • Configuring a primary storage system for SnapVault
  • Configuring a SnapVault secondary storage system
  • Scheduling SnapVault update backups on the primary storage system
  • Scheduling SnapVault update backups on the SnapVault secondary storage system
  • Scheduling SnapVault update backups on the SnapVault primary and secondary storage system schedules
  • Guidelines to back up qtrees to a volume using SnapVault
  • Guidelines for scheduling SnapVault transfer
• Management of WORM Snapshot copies by using SnapVault
  • How Snapshot copies retention works on SnapLock volumes
  • How Snapshot copies are named on SnapLock volumes
  • Retention period for WORM Snapshot copies created by SnapVault
    • Default SnapVault settings for the WORM Snapshot copies retention period
    • Specifying retention periods for WORM Snapshot copies
    • Extending the retention period of WORM Snapshot copies
  • Listing Snapshot copies on the WORM volume
  • Listing Snapshot copies and retention dates
  • Deleting expired WORM Snapshot copies
  • How to retain more than 255 SnapVault Snapshot copies
    • How to create a new volume to retain more Snapshot copies
    • Advantages of cloning Snapshot copies
    • Advantages of copying Snapshot copies
    • Creating a new volume for Snapshot copies retention
      • Verifying the state of the old volume
      • Removing the SnapVault schedules for the old volume
      • Creating a volume clone to a new volume
      • Copying the appropriate Snapshot copy to a new volume
      • Checking or setting the retention periods on the new volume
      • Checking volume options on the new volume
      • Restarting all SnapVault relationships in the new volume
      • Reconfiguring the SnapVault schedules in the new volume
      • Ensuring the migration of Snapshot copies
      • Stopping all SnapVault relationships in the old volume
  • Backup of the log volumes created by the SnapLock for SnapVault feature
    • Protecting a log volume of the SnapLock for SnapVault feature
    • Failing over to the standby system
    • Reestablishing standby protection
  • How to resynchronize a broken SnapVault relationship
  • Turning SnapVault off
• Management of SnapVault log files
  • Regulatory compliance and SnapVault log files
  • How SnapVault maintains compliance
    • Operations log file
    • Files-transferred log files
  • Configuring the log volumes of the SnapLock for SnapVault feature
  • Where the log files are kept
  • What files-transferred log files contains
  • Types of log entries recorded
  • Log entry format
  • How log entries are created
• How to provide backup and standby protection using SnapMirror
  • Setting up backup and standby protection for SnapVault
  • Reestablishing backup and standby protection for SnapVault
  • Returning to the original backup and standby configuration
  • Limitations to compliance backup and standby service
• Data ONTAP command-line interface commands in SnapLock
• Frequently asked questions
• General FAQs related to SnapLock
• FAQs related to SnapLock volumes
• FAQs related to tampering scenarios
• FAQs related to dump, NDMP, and WAFL
• SnapLock error messages