Preserving snapshot of clone after it is refreshed (destroyed and recreated)

mspring — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:24:54 GMT

I need to know if there are any options for preserving a snapshot of a clone after the clone is refreshed from another source?

For example:

clonevolume exists

snapshot is taken of clonevolume (SNAP1)

clonevolume is refreshed with another volume/snapshot

clonevolume offline/destroyed, which will remove the SNAP1 snapshot related to old version of clonevolume

new clonevolume created (vol clone create.......)

After the refresh is there a way to revert clonevolume back to SNAP1?

Thanks.

Re: Preserving snapshot of clone after it is refreshed (destroyed and recreated)

georgevj — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 08:05:45 GMT

"clonevolume is refreshed with another volume/snapshot "

Having difficulty in understanding this part.. 😞
Generally, when a volume is deleted, all snapshots also will be deleted. If you want to restore something after that point, I think you should have an aggregate level snapshot.

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