I'm just starting to test snapvault and I have a few questions about it's usage that I haven't found sufficient answers for in the documentation. I'm hoping someone might be able to help explain them to me.
* On the snapvault start command you can specify your source (primary) dataset by these three different options. 1. filer:/vol/volname/qtree_name - for a particular qtree 2. filer:/vol/volname/- - for non-qtree data in a volume 3. filer:/vol/volname - for contents of entire volume including all qtrees.
My question is, "Is there any difference between options 2 and 3, if I don't have any qtrees in any of my volumes?".
Second question is in regards to a note in the snapvault documentation that states:
"7.2.3 Volume to Qtree SnapVault When issuing the snapvault start command, you are not required to specify a qtree name for the source; however, this practice is not recommended. This type of relationship increases the performance of the SnapVault transfer; however, it also increases the amount of time it takes to perform a backup. Since you must specify a qtree for the SnapVault destination, an entire volume then resides in a qtree on the destination. When it's time for the restore via the Data ONTAP CLI, the entire contents of the qtree, which contains all the data from the source volume, is restored to a qtree on the SnapVault primary system. Once the data is restored, you must then manually copy the data back to the appropriate location."
As I've eluded to in my question above, we don't use any qtrees in our environment. Is the above note saying that when I do a snapvault restore that it's going to restore back into a qtree and I'll have to manually copy the contents out of the qtree back into the root dir of the volume before it will be back to the way it was before the restore? I'm hoping that's not what it's saying, though it sure sounds like it.
Thanks for any help on this, Romeo