topic Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017 in ONTAP Discussions

VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

membit — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 16:11:35 GMT

Happy new year 2017 everyone!

It is Monday January 2nd in 2017 and when right clicking a fileshare > properties > previous version, I can only see snapshots from year 2017.

If I list them from the cluster management, I can see there are more:

clustername::> snap list -vserver vservername -volume volume_name
                                                                 ---Blocks---
Vserver  Volume   Snapshot                                  Size Total% Used%
-------- -------- ------------------------------------- -------- ------ -----
vservername
         volume_name
                  daily.2016-12-20_0010                  39.23GB     0%    0%
                  daily.2016-12-21_0010                  36.24GB     0%    0%
                  daily.2016-12-22_0010                  31.20GB     0%    0%
                  daily.2016-12-23_0010                   9.29GB     0%    0%
                  daily.2016-12-24_0010                  765.4MB     0%    0%
                  daily.2016-12-25_0010                  346.6MB     0%    0%
                  daily.2016-12-26_0010                  401.9MB     0%    0%
                  daily.2016-12-27_0010                  28.11GB     0%    0%
                  daily.2016-12-28_0010                  31.64GB     0%    0%
                  daily.2016-12-29_0010                  32.75GB     0%    0%
                  daily.2016-12-30_0010                  33.35GB     0%    0%
                  daily.2016-12-31_0010                   1.05GB     0%    0%
                  daily.2017-01-01_0010                  405.7MB     0%    0%
                  daily.2017-01-02_0010                  33.76GB     0%    0%
14 entries were displayed.

Funny, right?

I have requested Netapp support to take a look, but I thought to post it to discussions as well.

EDIT: running Ontap 8.3.1.

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

pal — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 12:14:12 GMT

Hi there,

i have the opposite problem,

in PV i can only see snapshots until 30.12.16 , all snapshots after thar ar invisible in PV.

But i can see them (and use them) when i do ~snaphot

really odd

¨pål

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

pal — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 14:30:14 GMT

Hi Again,

the difference seems to be on which version of cdot you are on

i'm on 8.32 p4 and i dont see 2017

¨pål

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

PETERKLEIN — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 08:51:29 GMT

Same problem here:

With previous versions from explorer, we only see back to 01.01.2017.

Wth cmd \~snapshots\ we see snapshot back to 2015.

Ontap: 8.2.3

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

anee — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 10:00:16 GMT

It is new bug http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=1057844

Engineering is working on the fix.

Issue with date conversion encryption logic.

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

andre_koch — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 17:30:04 GMT

Same problem here

one system with ONTAP NetApp Release 8.3.2P7 see only previous versions listed up to 31.12.2016 00:10 but newer snapshots are existing on Volume

one system with ONTAP NetApp Release 8.3.2P2 see only previous versions listed from 2017 but older snapshots are existing on Volume.

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

dadan — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 06:59:57 GMT

Same thing here. With Data Ontap 9.0P1 we only see Snapshots from 2017.

As a workaroud, can you browse the snaphots via CIFS (.snapshot or ~snapshot-Directory)?

These Directorys arent available in our environment, altough the option "Snapshot Directory Access Enabled: true" (Command: volume show -instance -vserver [vserver] -volume [volumename]). And also "show-previous-versions" is set (Command: vserver cifs share show -share-name home$ -fields share-properties).

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

UberKV — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 10:05:48 GMT

Hi, the ~snapshot or .snapshot directory is not visiable in windows explorer (SMB2.0 limitation I believe), but you can use the dir \\<vserver>\<share>\.snapshot from a CMD window and it will display the snapshots. You can then browse the snapshot required in explorer using the following syntax \\<vserver>\<share>\.snapshot\daily.2016-12-08_0010.

Hope this helps.

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

Rouden — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 14:17:00 GMT

Hi Guys,

We have faced more or less the same issue. In our case we see only the 2017 snapshots instead.

Wa have opened a Netapp case and will keep you informed.

Regards,

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

dadan — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 14:23:56 GMT

Hi Ketan,

thanks for that hint regarding the SMB2 Limitation. I could browse the ~snapshot-directorys after disabling SMB 2 on a test client. This helps us, to work around the problem and make restores untit the issue is solved.

Thanks so far.

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

TETRAHEDRON — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 10:05:34 GMT

"Not fixed in any Data ONTAP releases". See NetApp bug 1057844:

http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/cgi-bin/bol?Type=Detail&Display=1057844.

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

Peter_UBC — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 18:18:16 GMT

I'm seeing the same thing on 8.3.2P1. Thumbs up on linking to the bug ID, saved me from spending time to open a case with support.

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

TABER_BRANDEN — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 16:24:02 GMT

Also facing this issue. Any ETA from Netapp?

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

LTMV2012 — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 07:35:14 GMT

We've got the same issues:

First System:

NetApp Release 8.3.1P1

- > Only Snapshots between today and 01.01.2017 can be accessed/viewed.

Second System:

NetApp Release 8.3.1P1

- > Only Snapshots between today and 01.01.2017 can be accessed/viewed.

Any Updates from NetApp?

Thanks

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

TSUNIXBACKUP — Mon, 09 Jan 2017 12:37:08 GMT

Hi,

I have the same problem. do you have any solution?? I can see only snap of 2016

regards

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

craiglittle — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 19:25:30 GMT

We also have this problem and can only see snapshots from the 2nd Jan 2017 till now.

Does anyone have an ETA on a fix?

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

themadhatter — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:18:28 GMT

We too had this issue, could only see 2017 snaps in previous versions, but as of this morning it appears to have automagically resolved on multiple clusters/svms. We had a case opened to track this, I'll make sure the engineer is aware things look OK again. Very strange.

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

TABER_BRANDEN — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:57:54 GMT

Bug has supposedly been fixed in newly release 8.3.2P9. Haven't had the chance to upgrade to that version yet to test.

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

tman24 — Thu, 12 Jan 2017 14:11:51 GMT

Does anyone know if this bug is in ontap9?

Re: VSS/previous versions display only snapshots from year 2017

TABER_BRANDEN — Fri, 13 Jan 2017 03:16:03 GMT

Does the newly released 9.1GA have this bug?