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No snapshot policy on volume

Julien_Mos — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:54:41 GMT

On one of my client's volume , under overview , snapshot policy it's note "None".

But there are still snapshots, how it's possible ?

Re: No snapshot policy on volume

Ontapforrum — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:31:53 GMT

Those snapshots that you are seeing may be from the previous policy (ex- default). Storage Admin may have disabled the snapshot policy (set to 'none') for the given volume later on. Changing the snapshot policy to 'none' do not delete the previous snapshots (unless the prefixes matches) created under a another policy.

Ideally, if it's none - You shouldn't see any newer snaps there. How old are they ? Could you share the output.

Re: No snapshot policy on volume

Julien_Mos — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 10:25:54 GMT

No it's not because that is recent snapshots. Everyday i got net snapshot !

Re: No snapshot policy on volume

Ontapforrum — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 10:42:43 GMT

Thanks for the screenshot. You can see the volume 'Type' is - Data Protection. So, this is the SnapMirrored destination volume, so it's picking up those snapshots as part of the Mirror transfer. Please check it's Source Relationship, the source volume would be 'Type' - Read & Write.

Re: No snapshot policy on volume

Julien_Mos — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 10:48:56 GMT

Yes it's "Read&Write". So on the destination volume, snapshot correspond to snapshots on the source volume ?

Re: No snapshot policy on volume

Ontapforrum — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 11:12:19 GMT

Yes, that's correct. B'cos it is a 'mirrored' destination volume , therefore it maintains exact copy of the source volume.

Re: No snapshot policy on volume

Julien_Mos — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:23:11 GMT

Okkeyyyy i was pretty lost .

Thank 's for the help 😉

Re: No snapshot policy on volume

Julien_Mos — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:40:39 GMT

And last question, when i try to see the snapmirror schedule with this command :

snapmirror show -fields schedule

i get "there are no entries matching your query "

while snapmirror are still made