Snapshot -expiry-time is not what you'd think

jm_anglin — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 14:27:21 GMT

Regularly scheduled snapshots cycle out whereas manually-created snapshots persist until auto-deleted (if configured) only when short on space or deleted manually. There is a -expiry-time option for the volume snapshot create command but this counter-intuitively locks the snapshot to prevent deletion until that time. Although I see the value in that feature, I think that option should be called something like -expiry-lock and instead -expiry-time should auto-delete the snapshot when specified. Irksome.

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Snapshot -expiry-time is not what you'd think