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Volume still has protection relationship but mirror has been deleted.

DBWannaBe — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 10:40:04 GMT

I have a volume that used to be protected that I'd like to remove.

The destination volume was deleted first unfortunately so ONTAP still sees a protection relationship.

So far I've attempted using the "snapmirror release" "snapmirror delete" commands but they failed.

I have also attempted to use the "volume delete" command which also failed.

The message that I get back is that the destination volume is offline.

How can I remove this unused volumes?

ONTAP 9.7

Thanks!

hmoubara — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 04:14:15 GMT

Hello,

Try using the -force true when performing the offline/delete command for that volume.

Thanks

paul_stejskal — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 15:22:45 GMT

See if there is a snapshot in that volume related to SnapMirror. Sometimes deleting that works. I don't know why, but it does.

DBWannaBe — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 23:19:47 GMT

Yep, it still had a snap that had to be deleted first.

I re-initialized the protection and then removed everything from the source volume and then cleaned up the destination volume.

Thanks for the help! It is really appreciated.

paul_stejskal — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 17:07:41 GMT

Thank you.