topic Re: Freeing up space on busy snapmirror snapshot in Data Protection

Freeing up space on busy snapmirror snapshot

Harvey_Mulenga — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 14:14:07 GMT

Hi,

Do I have to break the snapmirror relationship to free up space on a busy snapmirror snapshot?

Regards

Re: Freeing up space on busy snapmirror snapshot

PedroFrancisco — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 15:35:48 GMT

Yes,

You need break a snapmirror relationship and release the snapshot, so the snapshot will be automatically deleted.
If it not happened, you need manual delete the busy snapshot.

Re: Freeing up space on busy snapmirror snapshot

Ontapforrum — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 15:55:18 GMT

In addition to previous suggestion..

This command will list all the snapmirror-tagged snaps with information about 'owner' and 'busy' state.
::> snapshot show -volume <volume> -fields owners,busy -snapshot *snap*

Check the reason for the 'busy' state. Usually, once the snapmirror is completed, status should be 'normal', unless there are any clones attached.

If you are ABSOLUTELY SURE that the snapshot you want to delete is not needed for the snapmirror relationship, then you can break it and delete it as suggested by the previous post.

If in case it's still complaining and failing to delete post breaking-snapmirror, then you can use the "-ignore-owners" switch to delete it:

Cmd:
::> set adv
::*> snapshot delete -vserver <vserver> -volume <volume> -snapshot <snapshot> -ignore-owners true

However, please make sure you fully understand the consequences of deleting the snapshot, otherwise you may end-up doing re-baseline'.

Thanks!

Re: Freeing up space on busy snapmirror snapshot

wareer — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:16:55 GMT

I hope you found this connection helpful：

https://kb-cn.netapp.com/on-prem/ontap/dp/SnapMirror/SnapMirror-KBs/Snapshot_delete_fails_with_error_Snapshot_copy_has_not_expired_or_is_locked

Re: Freeing up space on busy snapmirror snapshot

weiliu — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 07:10:59 GMT

You need to disconnect the replication relationship before using:
"snapmirror release" frees up your space