topic Re: Snapshot Busy in ONTAP Discussions

Snapshot Busy

james_w_gicheru — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:07:37 GMT

I have a scenario where i had taken a lun clone from a scheduled snapshot. I have already deleted the clone but the snapshot still appears busy and cannot be deleted, it continues to grow in size and i cannot delete with the -f option as that will clear all the snapshots in my volume including the snapmirror snapshot.

I am on v3140 with 7.3.3 as the OnTap version

Re: Snapshot Busy

mitchells — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:01:23 GMT

Take a look at the following link to solve your problem: http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel733/html/ontap/bsag/GUID-7823FA56-F024-43E3-8117-D4232741F4E1.html

Re: Snapshot Busy

netpiranha — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:04:25 GMT

Dear James,

If it were a clone then it may not allow deletion of snapshot as the base snapshot of a parent volume cannot be deleted while a cloned volume exists. I hope you may have tried the below but its worth reading...

https://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=kb43500

https://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=kb17046

https://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=kb16908

http://now.netapp.com/NOW/knowledge/docs/ontap/rel727/html/ontap/bsag/10data-5.htm