SVM_DR Snapshots not deleted on source

brasseurm — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:47:52 GMT

Hello,

I've a question regarding the Snapshot (sm_created) used by SnapMirror for replication. I've probably misunderstood somehting but I cannot figure out what.

I have a cascaded replication: Cluster A > Cluster B (SVM_DR) > Cluster C (SnapVault - long term of Weekly)

The source volume (on Cluster A) has a snapshot policy set to "default", unchanged:

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Vserver: cluster1
Number of IsPolicy Name Schedules Enabled Comment
------------------------ --------- ------- ----------------------------------
default 4 true Default policy with hourly, daily & weekly schedules.
Schedule Count Prefix SnapMirror Label
---------------------- ----- ---------------------- -------------------
hourly     6      hourly        -
daily      2      daily         daily
weekly     2      weekly        weekly
5min      12      5min          5min

So no "sm_created" label. At this time, the SVM_DR replication ran for a couple of days and on my source volume (cluster 1) I still have the following snapshots:

snap list -vserver volume snapshot snapmirror-label
------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------
vs1 cascade_src1 vserverdr.0.d3c6b107-390d-11e9-a1d2-005056b013db.2019-02-25_190000 sm_created

[...] Ouput truncated

vs1 cascade_src1 vserverdr.2.d3c6b107-390d-11e9-a1d2-005056b013db.2019-02-27_122500 sm_created
vs1 cascade_src1 vserverdr.0.d3c6b107-390d-11e9-a1d2-005056b013db.2019-02-27_123000 sm_created
12 entries were displayed.

12 Snapshots are kept, the retention count for 5min snapshot is 12 and the Snapmirror schedule for the SVM_DR is indeed 5min.

If the retention count is defined by the snamirror label, why is is this using 5min instead of "sm_created" which is the real label ?

Do you have any best practices or recommandation to use in this kind of situation ?

Thanks for your help !

Re: SVM_DR Snapshots not deleted on source

RajeshPanda — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 10:17:15 GMT

@brasseurm Let me know if you are still looking for help, I will help you find an expert who can answer to your query.

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