Migrating Safeguarded Copy with FlashCopy to Safeguarded snapshots with internal scheduler

If you are currently using any external scheduling application, you can migrate to Safeguarded snapshot with internal scheduler.

To migrate from Safeguarded Copy policy to Safeguarded snapshot, complete these steps:
Remove Safeguarded policy in IBM Storage Virtualize
To remove Safeguarded policy in IBM Storage Virtualize, complete these steps:
  1. In the management GUI, select Volumes > Volume Groups.
  2. On the Volume Groups page, select a volume group and from the overflow menu, select the View Details.
  3. Select the Policies tab, and click Manage Safeguarded Backup Policy.
  4. On the Manage Safeguarded Policy page, select Remove policy from the volume group.
  5. Click Apply changes.
  6. Repeat these steps for all the Safeguarded backup volume groups.
  7. Verify that the existing Safeguarded backup policies are removed. On the Volumes Group page, select a volume group and select the Policies tab. The Safeguarded backup policy is not assigned message is displayed. Repeat this step for all the volume groups.
Disable external scheduling application in IBM Storage Virtualize
To disable the external scheduling application, complete these steps:
  1. In the management GUI, select Settings > GUI preferences > GUI Features, and ensure Display Safeguarded backup policy tile and External Scheduler Application Settings: is Hidden.
Assign snapshot policy in IBM Storage Virtualize
To assign a snapshot policy to a volume group by selecting Volume Groups, complete these steps:
  1. In the management GUI, select Volumes > Volume Groups.
  2. Select the volume group from the list of volume groups. In the overflow menu, select View Details.
  3. On the Policies tab, click Assign Internal Snapshot Policy.
  4. From the Assign Internal Snapshot Policy page, select the snapshot policy from the list of snapshot policies that you want to assign to a volume group. If you select a volume group that is already assigned a snapshot policy, it replaces that policy with this new policy that you selected.

  5. If any volumes in the selected volume groups are source volumes in a FlashCopy mapping, the Ignore existing FlashCopy mappings is displayed. If you are creating new snapshots or a Safeguarded snapshot, select this option. If this option is not selected, snapshots cannot be created. After you select this option and the snapshot policy is assigned successfully to a volume group, this option no longer displays.

    If volumes in a volume group are target volumes, you cannot create snapshot and Ignore existing FlashCopy mappings is not visible. If volumes in a volume group are both source and target volumes, Ignore existing FlashCopy mappings is visible, however you cannot create snapshot.

  6. Select Date and Choose a time (optional) for the policy to begin. Based on selected frequency of snapshots, the start time defaults to whenever the policy is assigned to a volume group.
  7. Select Safeguarded to safeguard the snapshots. If Safeguarded is selected, the snapshot policy creates Safeguarded snapshots for all the volumes in the group based on the schedule.
  8. Click Assign Policy to assign the policy.