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The Jira issue associated with this design spec

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4.9+8

Introduction

Purpose

Currently managed storage backends like SolidFire store their snapshots locally on the same storage. This is contrary to Cloudstack's view of a snapshot which resides on secondary storage. With the introduction of Storage Snapshot API, we want to make sure Volume snapshots are implemented the same on managed storages (i.e. backup of snapshot to secondary storage).

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