General ontap snapshot deletion and clone split question

kbhonagiri — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 22:55:44 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I'm facing below issue when trying to delete a snapshot from which a volume is cloned. Is this because the cloned volume has not been split from source yet ?

Exception in deleting snapshot:Job failed: Snapshot copy "<snaphostid>" of volume "<volumename>" in Vserver "<hostname>" has not expired or is locked. Use the "snapshot show -fields owners, expiry-time, snaplock-expiry-time" command to view the expiry and lock status of the Snapshot copy.

Kalyan

Re: General ontap snapshot deletion and clone split question

jaikumar — Sun, 18 Aug 2024 08:43:43 GMT

Correct that is the reason why you are not able to delete the snapshot. When we do a snapshot backed volume clone or even LUN clone , the cloned volume/lun and the snapshot same data blocks and only when we split the volume, the volume have independent data blocks (& frees up the snapshot).

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General ontap snapshot deletion and clone split question

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