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Mounting a snapmirror destination volume readonly

Dan_in_WA — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 15:08:46 GMT

I have a source volume on a local filer that is setup for CIFS protocol and has a share with no qtrees. The volume is snapmirrored to a destination volume on a peered remote filer. Is it possible to have the destination volume on the remote filer be made available readonly so that people may access the share? I want the snapmirror relationship to stay intact. I did not want to clone the destination volume because I want the share to be available at all times.

The problem I am trying to solve is to make local files available at the remote location so they are not dragged across the WAN everytime.

Thanks

Re: Mounting a snapmirror destination volume readonly

ekashpureff — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 19:50:07 GMT

Dan -

Yes, you can.

It's very common.

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,

Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr.
Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff
Senior NetApp Instructor, FastLane US http://www.fastlaneus.com/
(P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)

Re: Mounting a snapmirror destination volume readonly

Dan_in_WA — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 22:43:37 GMT

Thanks for letting me know I am able to do this. Could you point me towards any documentation that would help me setting this up. I have not located any so far.

Thanks

Re: Mounting a snapmirror destination volume readonly

oldfart — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 20:48:51 GMT

I dont believe you have answered his question. Thus I do not believe you were helpful at all.. so no kudos warranted.

@ekashpureff wrote:

Dan -

Yes, you can.

It's very common.

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,

Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr.
Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff
Senior NetApp Instructor, FastLane US http://www.fastlaneus.com/
(P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)

Re: Mounting a snapmirror destination volume readonly

chris_hague — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 14:13:03 GMT

I stand corrected.. Please see below reply...

Re: Mounting a snapmirror destination volume readonly

Trubida — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 18:14:17 GMT

Yes, you can snapmirror and access the data at the second site without a flexclone. Simply snapmirorr your data to the destination site, once the initial sync is done queisce the snapmirror. Now you will need to mount the volume on the SVM and create a share. Once that's done you can go back and resume the relationship.