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Resume SnapVault fails with "destination is temporarily quiesced" after running out of Snapshots

Fränk — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:15:05 GMT

Hello Community, need your help,

my SMSP creates SnapShots on primary and secondary (SnapVault) volume without honoring retentions. Now both volumes (primary and secondary) running out of snapshots (255) and SV went off.

snapvault status -l says

Status: Idle
Progress: -
State: Snapvaulted
Lag: 64:50:34
Mirror Timestamp: Sat Jan 23 01:27:53 CET 2016
Base Snapshot: xyz-base.0
Current Transfer Type: Retry
Current Transfer Error: destination requested snapshot that does not exist on the source
Contents: Replica
Last Transfer Type: Update
Last Transfer Size: 3114976 KB
Last Transfer Duration: 00:00:20

After deleting snapshots on both sides, I tried to resume Snapvault using "snapvault update ..."

snapvault update says

Transfer aborted: destination is temporarily quiesced.

Any idea, how I can get this running?

Re: Resume SnapVault fails with "destination is temporarily quiesced" after running out of

JGPSHNTAP — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:31:58 GMT

Did you delete all the snapshots including the transfer snap?

Re: Resume SnapVault fails with "destination is temporarily quiesced" after running out of

Fränk — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:40:22 GMT

thanks for the quick response.

hope not, both volumes have one snapshot with "snapvault" indicator

last base snap:

Base Snapshot: ndeluhfsc101(2014688024)_v4_PDELUH0001422_fcb201_SMSP_P_backup-base.0

snap list on destination

ndeluhfsc101(2014688024)_v4_PDELUH0001422_fcb201_SMSP_P_backup-base.0 (busy,snapvault)

Re: Resume SnapVault fails with "destination is temporarily quiesced" after running out of

JGPSHNTAP — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 17:53:01 GMT

How big is the volume?

What's the snapvault sched - snapvault snap sched

You might need to do snapvault start

Re: Resume SnapVault fails with "destination is temporarily quiesced" after running out of

Fränk — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 12:49:13 GMT

Hello, thanks for you reply.

Tthe volume is 6.5TB big, 1.1TB used.

Snapvault start is not possbile Error: "... is already configured and initialized."

snapvault start -r .... not working, Error: "Transfer aborted: destination is temporarily quiesced."

Any more ideas?

Snapvault off is not an option, since we have long lasting backup jobs around the clock.