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Snapvault snap sched is gone for no reason, how to reschedule?

raphaelk — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:31:07 GMT

Hi all,

IHAC who misses several snapvault schedules on the secondary site, they are gone for no reason.

He now wants to reschedule the snapvault relationships, but receives the error "A SnapVault relationship or schedule configuration already exists on a vFiler unit.".

What should he do to reschedule the relationship by keeping its snapshots on the secondary site.

Thanks in advance

Raphael

Re: Snapvault snap sched is gone for no reason, how to reschedule?

clackamas — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 07:15:19 GMT

Unless he is using 8.2 you can't do snapvault inside a vfiler. The volume can be owned by the vfiler but vfiler0 has to own the snapvault relationship.

the command is simple, "snapvault snap sched -x sv_daily 7@23@sun-sat". The -x flag says update the snapvault from the source and then create the snapshot sv_daily.0. If you simply want to create a snapshot, leave the -x flag out. We do that for things like weekly snapshots, "snapvault snap sched sv_weekly 52@23@sun" This just creates it without updating, useful if you are doing daily updates already.

Re: Snapvault snap sched is gone for no reason, how to reschedule?

cscott — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:10:07 GMT

A vfiler can be a destination outside 8.2(mine is 8.1 7mode), and you will need to check the vfiler(s) for the schedule and remove it if you plan to move it to the physcial controller.

vfilerb_wfa@gisnas99b*> snapvault status

Snapvault is ON.

Source Destination State Lag Status

gisnas99a:/vol/schubb_command_test_16/- vfilerb_wfa:/vol/vfilera_wfa/schubb_command_test_16 Snapvaulted 00:00:02 Idle

- Scott

Re: Snapvault snap sched is gone for no reason, how to reschedule?

clackamas — Fri, 08 Aug 2014 16:23:15 GMT

Good to know, snapvault was added in 8.1 in the vfiler context.