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Version Flexible SnapMirror Not Transferring All Snapshots

TMADOCTHOMAS — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:55:58 GMT

We use version flexible snapmirror for all SnapMirror jobs, and we use a custom policy that includes the "all_source_snapshots" label. I recently set up two new volumes on a 9.3 system and replicated them to a 9.2 system. They worked fine until I needed to rename the source and destination volumes. After that change, the snapmirror jobs fail when run on a schedule (they work most of the time when I run them manually the next day). The errors complains that the snapmirror snapshot already exists on the destination. Even weirder, I just noticed that not all of the regular snapshots are being sent. There are 7 snapshots retained on both volumes, but only 5 of them show up for one of them and 6 for the other. Any ideas?

Re: Version Flexible SnapMirror Not Transferring All Snapshots

paul_stejskal — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 15:34:45 GMT

How big are the snapshots? My first guess is high change rate. Perhaps the snaps aren't rolling off fast enough if they are huge.

Re: Version Flexible SnapMirror Not Transferring All Snapshots

TMADOCTHOMAS — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:28:57 GMT

Thanks for replying Paul. The snapshots are very small, only MB in size. What makes it weirder is the missing snapshots are in the middle ... for example snapshots 0 and 1 are replicated, 2 is skipped, then 3 - 6 appear. Replication on one of the volumes failed last night. When I ran it this morning manually it was fine.

Re: Version Flexible SnapMirror Not Transferring All Snapshots

paul_stejskal — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:52:00 GMT

We probably need to look at some logs. Would it be possible to open a case?

If you can maybe share some of the snapmirror log files. If you aren't sure a case would be able to expedite troubleshooting.

Re: Version Flexible SnapMirror Not Transferring All Snapshots

TMADOCTHOMAS — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 19:46:36 GMT

Thanks Paul. Yeah it probably makes sense just to open a case. I will do that. Thanks for the help!

Re: Version Flexible SnapMirror Not Transferring All Snapshots

paul_stejskal — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 20:21:55 GMT

Sure thing. Glad to help.