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How to delete ready only snap shot data

muhaidibcon
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We have two hosts, FAS270 and FAS 2020. FAS 270 is using as filer and FAS2020 is using for snap mirroring(backup of FAS270). When I am trying to delete old snap shot from FAS 2020, it is showing the message "Snapshot operation not allowed on a read-only volume." How we can delete old snap shot???

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radek_kubka
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SnapMirror mirrors everything from primary - including snapshots.

If you want to get rid of a particular snapshot, then you have to delete it from primary & that change will be reflected during the next SnapMirror update.

Regards,

Radek

adamfox
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This is true for volume snapmirrors.  You can delete local snapshots on qtree snapmirror destinations, just no the baselines of the snapmirror relationships.

radek_kubka
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Yep, 100% true - QSM is different in that respect from VSM.

In this particular case though I believe we are dealing with VSM as the error message clearly says volume is in read-only state.

Regards,
Radek

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