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  3. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  5. Section IV. Configuring storage lifecycle policies (SLPs)
  7. Storage operations
  9. Snapshot operation in an SLP
  11. Primary snapshot storage unit
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Primary snapshot storage unit

A snapshot operation can use a Primary snapshot storage unit. That is, the storage unit represents a disk pool that contains the volumes that have only the Primary property set.

Figure: SLP that contains a Snapshot operation, a Backup From Snapshot operation, and a Duplication operation shows an SLP that contains one primary-only Snapshot operation, one Backup From Snapshot operation, and one Duplication operation. The Backup From Snapshot operation is used to create a backup from the snapshot on the primary-only Snapshot operation. After the backup is created, it is duplicated to a Duplication operation.

Figure: SLP that contains a Snapshot operation, a Backup From Snapshot operation, and a Duplication operation

SLP that contains a Snapshot operation, a Backup From Snapshot operation, and a Duplication operation

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