topic Re: Snapshot in use, and cannot delete in ONTAP Discussions

Snapshot in use, and cannot delete

netappmagic — Tue, 18 Jul 2017 23:46:05 GMT

I am trying to delete a snapshot, but getting following message:

Error: command failed: Snapshot is in use

I used the option: -ignore-owners true -force true

still the same error.

No Snapmirror, snapvault or clone associaetd with the volume

Any idea how to delete it?

Re: Snapshot in use, and cannot delete

Jeff_Yao — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 06:50:26 GMT

might be busy snapshot issue

check this

https://kb.netapp.com/support/s/article/ka31A00000013dmQAA/how-to-use-lun-snap-usage-s-when-deleting-busy-snapshot-copies?language=en_US

thanks

Jeff

Re: Snapshot in use, and cannot delete

joey_k — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 10:52:25 GMT

hello, have you resolve the issue? i have the same problem too,

Re: Snapshot in use, and cannot delete

ITSSANSTORAGE — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 01:50:55 GMT

We are still having the same problem too. Have tried to force delete the snaps with no sucess. Any further help appreciated.

::*> snap delete -vserver tur-nas1 -volume tur_nas1_streamv19_content -snapshot SP_2_1213666_7626_1460597749 -foreground true -force true -ignore-owners true

Error: command failed: Snapshot copy "SP_2_1213666_7626_1460597749" of volume "tur_nas1_streamv19_content" on Vserver "tur-nas1" has not expired or is locked. Use the "snapshot show -fields owners, expiry-time" command to view
the expiry and lock status of the Snapshot copy.

::*> snapshot show -fields owners,expiry-time -vserver tur-nas1 -volume tur_nas1_streamv19_content
vserver volume snapshot owners expiry-time
-------- -------------------------- ---------------------------- -------------- -----------
tur-nas1 tur_nas1_streamv19_content SP_2_1213666_7626_1460597749 "volume clone" -
tur-nas1 tur_nas1_streamv19_content test_snapshot_ian - -
tur-nas1 tur_nas1_streamv19_content snapmirror.02422c1b-4daf-11e4-8a7c-123478563412_2147484763.2018-02-28_143000

Re: Snapshot in use, and cannot delete

vietnetapp — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 06:19:08 GMT

There is no way that you can delete that busy snapshot. you can't force or ignore-owner.

Please try these steps. It works like a charm:

1. create new snapshot on the source cluster, label the snapshot properly so that the snapshot will be used for snapmirror

2. on the destination cluster, re-create the snapmirror job.

3. on the destinaiton cluster, run "snapmirror resync". it will use the newly created snapshot for snapmirror and release the busy snapshot that you try to delete.

4. delete the "busy" snapshot (which is not busy anymore) on the destination volume.

Re: Snapshot in use, and cannot delete

Mobilsuit — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 05:11:35 GMT

I have succeeded this way. ::*> snap list
---Blocks---
Vserver Volume Snapshot Size Total% Used%
-------- -------- ------------------------------------- -------- ------ -----
svm1 data09
snapmirror.8a60e53d-ab82-11ec-9c9c-d039ea925dc7_2150121772.2022-05-14_170013 756KB 0% 0%
snapmirror.8a60e53d-ab82-11ec-9c9c-d039ea925dc7_2150121772.2022-05-14_170127 9.49MB 0% 0%
snapmirror.8a60e53d-ab82-11ec-9c9c-d039ea925dc7_2150121772.2022-05-14_170933 372KB 0% 0%
snapmirror.8a60e53d-ab82-11ec-9c9c-d039ea925dc7_2150121772.2022-05-14_171023 1.11TB 8% 12%
snapmirror.8a60e53d-ab82-11ec-9c9c-d039ea925dc7_2150121773.2022-06-28_194000 534.8GB 4% 6%

::*> snap delete -vserver svm1 -volume data09 -foreground true -force true -ignore-owners true -snapshot snapmirror.8a60e53d-ab82-11ec-9c9c-d039ea925dc7_2150121772.2022-05-14_170013

::*> snap delete -vserver svm1 -volume data09 -foreground true -force true -ignore-owners true -snapshot snapmirror.8a60e53d-ab82-11ec-9c9c-d039ea925dc7_2150121772.2022-05-14_170127

::*> snap delete -vserver svm1 -volume data09 -foreground true -force true -ignore-owners true -snapshot snapmirror.8a60e53d-ab82-11ec-9c9c-d039ea925dc7_2150121772.2022-05-14_170933

::*> snap delete -vserver svm1 -volume data09 -foreground true -force true -ignore-owners true -snapshot snapmirror.8a60e53d-ab82-11ec-9c9c-d039ea925dc7_2150121772.2022-05-14_171023

::*> snap list
---Blocks---
Vserver Volume Snapshot Size Total% Used%
-------- -------- ------------------------------------- -------- ------ -----
svm1 data09
snapmirror.8a60e53d-ab82-11ec-9c9c-d039ea925dc7_2150121773.2022-06-28_194000 534.8GB 4% 6%

Thanks