topic Re: Hi team is it possible to get the year wise data in ONTAP 9? in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Hi-team-is-it-possible-to-get-the-year-wise-data-in-ONTAP-9/m-p/443805#M42124 <P>You may use any 3rd Party tool to do that. ONTAP scans aggregates and volumes at the block-level. Therefore, there is no way from ONTAP to generate a cold data <STRONG>report at the file-level</STRONG>.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>From Storage side, you can view the 'snapshots' date/time for the given volume (where data resides), to identify data that has been 'cold' [data that is not accessed] for more than say example - 30,60,90,120 days. You can sort this (snapshot) via CLI or script. Data that is in the Snapshot or active-file-system, will not report which files (names) are cold, it is the BLOCKS that are 'cold'. You could then either delete those Snapshots which are deemed outside of your compliance requirement, or have FabricPool tiering in place to Tier (send) those BLOCKs to lesser expansive storage/archive/cloud.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is there a way to report file-level cold data?<BR /><A href="https://kb.netapp.com/onprem/ontap/os/Is_there_a_way_to_report_file-level_cold_data%3F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://kb.netapp.com/onprem/ontap/os/Is_there_a_way_to_report_file-level_cold_data%3F</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>FabricPool best practices:<BR /><A href="https://www.netapp.com/pdf.html?item=/media/17239-tr4598pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.netapp.com/pdf.html?item=/media/17239-tr4598pdf.pdf</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:00:44 GMT Ontapforrum 2023-04-27T09:00:44Z Hi team is it possible to get the year wise data in ONTAP 9? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Hi-team-is-it-possible-to-get-the-year-wise-data-in-ONTAP-9/m-p/443797#M42118 <P>Hi team is it possible to get the year wise data in ONTAP 9?</P> Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:49:54 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Hi-team-is-it-possible-to-get-the-year-wise-data-in-ONTAP-9/m-p/443797#M42118 Sumara 2025-06-04T09:49:54Z Re: Hi team is it possible to get the year wise data in ONTAP 9? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Hi-team-is-it-possible-to-get-the-year-wise-data-in-ONTAP-9/m-p/443799#M42120 <P><SPAN>Hi team is it possible to get the year wise data in ONTAP 9 for volumes</SPAN></P> Thu, 27 Apr 2023 07:54:08 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Hi-team-is-it-possible-to-get-the-year-wise-data-in-ONTAP-9/m-p/443799#M42120 Sumara 2023-04-27T07:54:08Z Re: Hi team is it possible to get the year wise data in ONTAP 9? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Hi-team-is-it-possible-to-get-the-year-wise-data-in-ONTAP-9/m-p/443805#M42124 <P>You may use any 3rd Party tool to do that. ONTAP scans aggregates and volumes at the block-level. Therefore, there is no way from ONTAP to generate a cold data <STRONG>report at the file-level</STRONG>.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>From Storage side, you can view the 'snapshots' date/time for the given volume (where data resides), to identify data that has been 'cold' [data that is not accessed] for more than say example - 30,60,90,120 days. You can sort this (snapshot) via CLI or script. Data that is in the Snapshot or active-file-system, will not report which files (names) are cold, it is the BLOCKS that are 'cold'. You could then either delete those Snapshots which are deemed outside of your compliance requirement, or have FabricPool tiering in place to Tier (send) those BLOCKs to lesser expansive storage/archive/cloud.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Is there a way to report file-level cold data?<BR /><A href="https://kb.netapp.com/onprem/ontap/os/Is_there_a_way_to_report_file-level_cold_data%3F" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://kb.netapp.com/onprem/ontap/os/Is_there_a_way_to_report_file-level_cold_data%3F</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>FabricPool best practices:<BR /><A href="https://www.netapp.com/pdf.html?item=/media/17239-tr4598pdf.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.netapp.com/pdf.html?item=/media/17239-tr4598pdf.pdf</A></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Thu, 27 Apr 2023 09:00:44 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Hi-team-is-it-possible-to-get-the-year-wise-data-in-ONTAP-9/m-p/443805#M42124 Ontapforrum 2023-04-27T09:00:44Z Re: Hi team is it possible to get the year wise data in ONTAP 9? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Hi-team-is-it-possible-to-get-the-year-wise-data-in-ONTAP-9/m-p/443814#M42125 <P>What data exactly?</P> Thu, 27 Apr 2023 11:40:08 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Hi-team-is-it-possible-to-get-the-year-wise-data-in-ONTAP-9/m-p/443814#M42125 bretta 2023-04-27T11:40:08Z Re: Hi team is it possible to get the year wise data in ONTAP 9? https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Hi-team-is-it-possible-to-get-the-year-wise-data-in-ONTAP-9/m-p/443827#M42126 <P>The question is vague perhaps due to a language barrier.</P><P>Several methods you need to investigate that you are likely already licensed for:&nbsp;<BR />ActiveIQ OnCommand Unified Manager</P><P>ActiveIQ online</P><P>XCP Data Analytics<BR /><BR />If you can clarify exactly what you're trying to get, we can give better answers.</P> Thu, 27 Apr 2023 14:58:00 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Hi-team-is-it-possible-to-get-the-year-wise-data-in-ONTAP-9/m-p/443827#M42126 EWILTS_SAS 2023-04-27T14:58:00Z