topic Snapshot Auto Delete in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snapshot-Auto-Delete/m-p/18287#M4322 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello my customer has been having issues as his NDMP fails due to his volume hitting the maximum snapshot state and is unable to create new snapshots.</P><P></P><P>I remember setting this volume up with snapshot auto delete configured. But I have to manually delete a large set of snapshots every month as the Snapshot Auto delete is not working.&nbsp; do I need to change the target free space past 20%?</P><P></P><P>this is the output for vol status -v <IMG src="http://community.netapp.com/legacyfs/online/22944_vol+status+-v.jpg" style="float: left;" width="450" /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:54:44 GMT ANDREWLIMA 2025-06-05T05:54:44Z Snapshot Auto Delete https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snapshot-Auto-Delete/m-p/18287#M4322 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hello my customer has been having issues as his NDMP fails due to his volume hitting the maximum snapshot state and is unable to create new snapshots.</P><P></P><P>I remember setting this volume up with snapshot auto delete configured. But I have to manually delete a large set of snapshots every month as the Snapshot Auto delete is not working.&nbsp; do I need to change the target free space past 20%?</P><P></P><P>this is the output for vol status -v <IMG src="http://community.netapp.com/legacyfs/online/22944_vol+status+-v.jpg" style="float: left;" width="450" /></P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 05:54:44 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snapshot-Auto-Delete/m-p/18287#M4322 ANDREWLIMA 2025-06-05T05:54:44Z Re: Snapshot Auto Delete https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snapshot-Auto-Delete/m-p/18291#M4323 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>What is the constraint? There are 255 snapshots being created? Or some size issue? You can change the trigger from volume to snapshot space if that helps.</P><P></P><P>How are the snapshots being created?</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Sep 2013 18:36:27 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/Snapshot-Auto-Delete/m-p/18291#M4323 rwelshman 2013-09-05T18:36:27Z