topic Re: SMVI Retention in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-Retention/m-p/60388#M14213 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I believe SMVI invokes a process in the background, from time to time, to search through the old backups and delete them based on their retention, I do not believe it is based on when the backup runs.</P><P></P><P>This is one reason to not use 'days', and use number of snapshots for retention... <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="sad" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/5.0.1/images/emoticons/sad.gif"></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:56:15 GMT mglanville2 2012-08-29T03:56:15Z SMVI Retention https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-Retention/m-p/60377#M14207 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Friendz,</P><P></P><P> I just wanted to know the working of SMVI snapshot .when does the previous snapshot be removed ,is that be during the next backup trigger or next backup completion or after a retention period completion...?</P><P>Reason for this question is ,we had a retention policy of 1 day, customer requested for restore, backup failed during that day no snapshots are available there to do a restore.</P><P></P><P>Regards,</P><P>Saran</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:20:24 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-Retention/m-p/60377#M14207 saranraj456 2025-06-05T06:20:24Z Re: SMVI Retention https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-Retention/m-p/60379#M14209 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><DIV><P>First thing to check - are there any snapshots on this volume when looking directly on the filer?</P></DIV></BODY></HTML> Fri, 24 Aug 2012 15:00:19 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-Retention/m-p/60379#M14209 radek_kubka 2012-08-24T15:00:19Z SMVI Retention https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-Retention/m-p/60384#M14211 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>no there is no snapshot ...that is the thing wanted to check the concept of snapshot.</P></BODY></HTML> Mon, 27 Aug 2012 20:01:06 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-Retention/m-p/60384#M14211 saranraj456 2012-08-27T20:01:06Z Re: SMVI Retention https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-Retention/m-p/60388#M14213 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I believe SMVI invokes a process in the background, from time to time, to search through the old backups and delete them based on their retention, I do not believe it is based on when the backup runs.</P><P></P><P>This is one reason to not use 'days', and use number of snapshots for retention... <SPAN __jive_emoticon_name="sad" __jive_macro_name="emoticon" class="jive_macro jive_emote" src="https://community.netapp.com/5.0.1/images/emoticons/sad.gif"></SPAN></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 29 Aug 2012 03:56:15 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-Retention/m-p/60388#M14213 mglanville2 2012-08-29T03:56:15Z