Contents
How Remote Copy works...........................................................................................................6
Uses for Remote Copy..........................................................................................................7
Benefits of Remote Copy.......................................................................................................8
Planning for Remote Copy.........................................................................................................8
Recurrence...................................................................................................................10
Testing the copy time................................................................................................10
Capacity......................................................................................................................10
Retention policies..........................................................................................................10
Best practices....................................................................................................................11
2 Using Remote Copy..................................................................................13
Best practice.................................................................................................................13
Getting there................................................................................................................13
Creating a remote volume..............................................................................................16
What the system does....................................................................................................17
Creating the first copy...................................................................................................17
Editing a remote snapshot...................................................................................................19
Creating the schedule.............................................................................................................23
What the system does........................................................................................................25
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