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NOTE: Retention time restrictions are:
• You must have a Virtual Lock license to use the
• The minimum retention period is 1 hour; the maximum is 43,800 hours/1,825 days (5 years).
• The default retention time is 336 hours (14 days).
• The retention time cannot exceed the value of the InServ's VVRetentionTimeMax.
• You can set a retention time regardless of whether the policy is numeric- or
• The retention time cannot be longer than the expiration time (if the policy is
• If you create a remote virtual copy and Remote Copy is set up
| in asynchronous periodic mode, the retention time is applied |
| to the remote copy on the Remote Copy backup server only. |
| If Remote Copy is set up in synchronous mode, the retention |
| time is applied to both the remote copy on the Remote Copy |
| backup server and the virtual copy on the Remote Copy primary |
| server. |
| • The retention time cannot be removed or reduced after it is set. |
| • To set no retention time for this virtual copy, use a value of 0h. |
Optional. When used with the | |
| confirmation for the retention time modification. |
EXAMPLES
The following command creates a virtual copy for the database test on the SQL server (SQLServer).
RMSql create -s SQLServer -d test
The following command creates a virtual copy for the database test on a virtual SQL server (SQLVirtualServer) on a cluster.
RMSql create -s SQLVirtualServer -d test
The following command creates a Remote Copy snapshot for the database test on a virtual SQL server (SQLVirtualServer) on a cluster to a secondary site server (SecondaryServer).
RMSql create
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