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5 selecting the snapshot settings – Avago Technologies MegaRAID Fast Path Software User Manual

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LSI Corporation Confidential

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July 2011

MegaRAID SAS Software User Guide

Chapter 4: WebBIOS Configuration Utility

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Using MegaRAID Recovery

5. Select the virtual drives on which you want to create concurrent snapshots.

6. Click OK.

This action creates a snapshot with same name and the same timestamp on all of
the selected snapshot base virtual drives.

4.11.5

Selecting the Snapshot

Settings

You can use the Snapshot Settings dialog to perform the following actions:

Take a snapshot on reboot.

This action takes a snapshot of the virtual drive when you reboot after every
successful system shutdown. This feature is mainly intended to take a snapshot of
boot virtual drives to allow the operating system to be restored in case of
corruption.

Enable automatic deletion of a snapshot.

This action deletes the oldest snapshot automatically and lets you create a new
snapshot.

Follow these steps to enable the snapshot settings.

1. Click a virtual drive icon in the right panel on the WebBIOS configuration utility

main dialog.

The Virtual Drive dialog appears, as shown in

Figure 131

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Figure 131: Virtual Drive Dialog