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SnapMirror Copying But Not accessible?

MichaelGov — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 17:08:56 GMT

Hello! I'm still relatively new to multi-cluster NAS management and SnapMirror, so please be gentle 🙂

I have NAS1 and NAS2, both are running NetApp Release 9.11.1P10.

on NAS1, I have an SVM called Backup and a volume called BackupVol. I'm trying to snapMirror the data to NAS2's Backup_mirror SVM to a volume called vol_backup. On NAS2/vol_backup, I can see that snapshots are being created.

--NAS1/Backup/BackupVol - SnapMirror (Local or Remote) is showing the relationship, Healthy and Mirrored

--NAS2/Backup_mirror/vol_backup - SnapMirror (Local or Remote) is showing nothing

--NAS2/Backup_mirror/vol_backup - Snapshot Copies is showing snapshots

The problem I'm having is accessing the data on NAS2. when I try to NFS mount the volume Backup_mirror\vol_backup, I'm told there's no matching directory. I can mount Backup_mirror\ successfully, so it's not an exportfs issue (I think), but I'm not seeing data.

Am I missing a step or a concept somewhere?

Thanks!

Re: SnapMirror Copying But Not accessible?

MichaelGov — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 21:31:46 GMT

I would like to follow up that I missed the crucial step of actually creating the mountpoint within the ONTAP interface. Once I did that, everything went smoothly.

Sigh

Re: SnapMirror Copying But Not accessible?

ChLokesh — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 04:45:06 GMT

Hello Michael,

Glad to hear that you were able to fix the issue by yourself.

Below is NetApp NFS best practice and implementation guide for your reference.

https://www.netapp.com/media/10720-tr-4067.pdf

This will insure that we avoid common pitfalls and reduce errors going forward.