Creating and Managing Snapshots

On-demandManual snapshots in eEKAS are created from the SnapshotCeph Snapshots page. eEKASUse firstthem asksbefore whichmaintenance, share,client-side targetdata migrations or volumeother shouldchanges bewhere protected.a quick recovery point is useful.

Create an on-demand snapshot

1. Open Snapshots.
2. Select Create Snapshot.
3. ChooseSelect the Ceph-backed resource orthat volumeshould fromreceive thea list.snapshot.
4. Confirm the snapshot creation.
5. Return to the snapshot overview and verify the snapshot count and last snapshot time.timestamp.

Capacity prerequisite

The test system currently shows a useful warning for the selected XFS volume: snapshot creation fails when no snapshot space is reserved. If this appears, reserve the required snapshot space or adjust the volume configuration before creating snapshots.

Management tasks

• Use the snapshot countscount to detect resources without protection.
• Review the Last Snapshot column after maintenance windows or scheduled jobs.
• Remove obsolete snapshots whenaccording to the operational retention ispolicy.
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• Create

Before production use

Test snapshot creation and restore behavior with a freshnon-critical snapshotCeph resource first. Confirm that the expected resource appears in the Ceph Snapshots overview before softwarerelying updates,on maintenancethe orprocedure client-sidefor dataproduction migration. workloads.