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Suspending a policy prevents new snapshots from being taken and prevents existing snapshots from being terminated. This action enables pausing the snapshot cycle while recovering data from a snapshot, for example, while verifying data across the snapshot selection for the correct image to restore from. A snapshot policy can be suspended entirely, as seen in Figure 33, or on specified SGs, as seen in Figure 34.
The Storage Groups page (Figure 35) also has an option to suspend policies on a specific SG.