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Busy snapshot in a volume deletion.

ivanliumh — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:20:43 GMT

Dear all,

I ever setup a snapshot named as "temp" as in following snapshot list of one volume:

%/used       %/total date          name
---------- ---------- ------------ --------
0% ( 0%)    0% ( 0%) Dec 09 00:00 nightly.0
2% ( 2%)    0% ( 0%) Dec 08 08:00 hourly.0
2% ( 0%)    0% ( 0%) Dec 08 00:00 nightly.1
4% ( 2%)    0% ( 0%) Dec 07 18:00 hourly.1
4% ( 1%)    0% ( 0%) Dec 07 00:00 weekly.0
6% ( 2%)    1% ( 0%) Dec 06 00:00 nightly.2
10% ( 4%)    1% ( 0%) Nov 30 20:57 temp           (busy,LUNs)

Its status keeps busy always, as you can see above. Right now, I want delete this "temp" snapshot from the volume, then it showed me as:

Snapshot temp is busy because of LUN clone

My question is how to delete this busy snapshot? How to stop the clone of LUN? Where can I see this LUN clone procedure or session?

Thanks A Lot!

Good Day, everyone!

Re: Busy snapshot in a volume deletion.

neto — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:11:36 GMT

Hi my friend

This is neto from Brazil

How are you?

You need to check:

Lun show

Lun offline clonedlun

Lun destroy clonedlun

Probably you will need to delete the newest snapshots, because as you have used lun clone, those snapshots have the lun also.

If you delete the newest snapshots, you will be able to delete the snapshot or make it not busy.

All the best

neto

NetApp - I love this company!

Re: Busy snapshot in a volume deletion.

pascalduk — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 09:24:08 GMT

You can check with the "lun snap usage" command which other snapshots you need to delete before you can delete the busy snapshot.

https://now.netapp.com/Knowledgebase/solutionarea.asp?id=kb20208

Re: Busy snapshot in a volume deletion.

ivanliumh — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:02:06 GMT

Thank you all, I will try the "lun snap usage" command.

Ivan