topic Re: Help with Snapmirror error: Failed to create Snapshot (Invalid Argument) in Data Protection

Help with Snapmirror error: Failed to create Snapshot (Invalid Argument)

frank_iro — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:20:11 GMT

Hi,

Having trouble with a snapmirror update not completing. It fails with the following error:

Failed to create Snapshot copy on volume [svm]:[volume] (Failed to create Snapshot copy on volume b079364c-3655-11e7-b5b9-00a09897da7d:[volume] (Invalid argument)

Can't seem to find any info as to what that means, and why it's happening.

Replication is happening between to different countries via VPN. I have about 7 volumes replicating. This is the only one that fails.

Any pointers?

Thanks.

Re: Help with Snapmirror error: Failed to create Snapshot (Invalid Argument)

Ontapforrum — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 15:31:59 GMT

Hi,

Could you check if there is enough space on the destination aggregate?

Please give us some more info to help you with.
Source Cluster version
Dest Cluster version

::>snapmirror show -fields last-transfer-error -destination-path SVM:/path/that/is/failing
::>event log show

Thanks!

Re: Help with Snapmirror error: Failed to create Snapshot (Invalid Argument)

frank_iro — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 05:53:31 GMT

Hi,

So I managed to resolve this, but realized I hadn't updated the forum post. Just needed to throttle the failing snapmirror relationship a little and it stopped failing. So, issue resolved.

Thanks for the response though.

Cheers.