topic Snap Mirror in ONTAP Discussions

Snap Mirror

careukadm — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:07:26 GMT

I'm going to use Snap Mirror to replicate our CIFS volume to another filer in a different site. On the source filer we have a number of shares setup that point to the source volume. Once the volume has been mirrored using snapmirror do I have to manually create the shares on the destination filer?

Thanks

Re: Snap Mirror

adaikkap — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 04:18:38 GMT

As far as I know, they are not, as only volumes options are copied as part of Volume SnapMirror.

But CIFS share and NFS exports are stored in registry and file.

etc/exports file for NFS and dont know the name of the registry for CIFS.

Regards

adai

Re: Snap Mirror

smoot — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:36:39 GMT

If you configure mirroring with Protection Manager using a DR-enabled protection policy, it will automatically copy the export information (NFS exports, CIFS shares and LUN mappings) to the DR volumes. This is done out-of-band since ONTAP does not know how to mirror these settings by itself.

Re: Snap Mirror

ryanstather — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:35:38 GMT

You could also map the filer and/or vfiler's c$ share and copy the following file:

cifsconfig_share.cfg

This contains all the cifs share information. I believe this is the registry file Adai was referring to.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,

Ryan