Creating Safeguarded backup locations

You can use the GUI and command- line interface for creating Safeguarded backup location.

Using the management GUI

To create a Safeguarded backup location, complete these steps:
  1. If the parent pool is a standard pool, enter the amount of capacity that is dedicated to the child pool. If the parent pool is a data reduction pool, the child pool shares capacity with the parent pool.
  2. Select Safeguard to indicate that the child pool is used as the Safeguarded backup location for immutable backup copies of source volumes.
    Note: Before a Safeguarded policy can be applied, create one Safeguarded backup location for each parent pool. After you create the corresponding Safeguarded backup locations for each parent pool, create a volume group for the all the affected source volumes.
  3. Select Encrypted to encrypt the child pool. If the parent pool is encrypted, the child pool adopts encryption from the parent.

After you create the Safeguarded backup locations, create volume groups.

Using the command-line interface (CLI)

To creates a new child pool to be used as the Safeguarded backup location for parent pool, enter the following command.
mkmdiskgrp -size mdiskgrp_size -parentmdiskgrp mdiskgrp_id | mdiskgrp_name -name pool_name -safeguarded
where mdiskgrp_size specifies the child pool capacity. The mdiskgrp_id | mdiskgrp_name specifies the parent pool from which the volume extents of the child pool are allocated when you create a child pool. The -safeguarded parameter specifies whether the child pool is used as a Safeguarded backup location.