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lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

TDUBB1234 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:49:30 GMT

I am getting this error on cloning a flexvol iscsi lun. any idea?

lun clone create /vol/flexvol0/iscsi_vol1 -o noreserve -b /vol/flexvol0/iscsi_vol1_clone clone_flexclone

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

pascalduk — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:34:00 GMT

Looking at the name of your paths I think you have the clone and parent path reversed in your command. It should be:

lun clone create /vol/flexvol0/iscsi_vol1_clone -o noreserve -b /vol/flexvol0/iscsi_vol1 clone_flexclone

BTW, it is iscsi_vol1 the name of your lun? You need to provide the full path including the name of the lun itself as you can't clone a qtree.

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

TDUBB1234 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 05:46:48 GMT

it still doesnt work

lun clone create /vol/flexvol0/iscsi_vol0_clone -o noreserve -b /vol/flexvol0/iscsi_vol0 clone_flexclone

lun clone create: No such snapshot

dataontap> df -h

Filesystem total used avail capacity Mounted on

/vol/vol0/ 647MB 190MB 457MB 29% /vol/vol0/

/vol/vol0/.snapshot 161MB 128MB 33MB 79% /vol/vol0/.snapshot

/vol/flexvol0/ 6216MB 45MB 6170MB 1% /vol/flexvol0/

/vol/flexvol0/.snapshot 1554MB 1540KB 1552MB 0% /vol/flexvol0/.snapshot

/vol/iscsi/ 8192MB 8112MB 79MB 99% /vol/iscsi/

/vol/iscsi/.snapshot 2048MB 351MB 1696MB 17% /vol/iscsi/.snapshot

dataontap> lun show -v

/vol/flexvol0/iscsi_vol0 3.0g (3224309760) (r/w, online, mapped)

Serial#: idWqJ4eE8V32

Share: none

Space Reservation: disabled

Multiprotocol Type: windows_2008

Maps: iscsi_test=1

Occupied Size: 39.1m (40992768)

Creation Time: Tue Jul 26 05:23:00 GMT 2011

Cluster Shared Volume Information: 0x0

/vol/iscsi/iscsi_qtr/iscsi_vol0 7.9g (8488488960) (r/w, online, mapped)

Comment: "iscsi test"

Serial#: idWqJ4eBac0J

Share: none

Space Reservation: enabled

Multiprotocol Type: windows

Maps: iscsi_test=0

Occupied Size: 117.9m (123613184)

Creation Time: Mon Jul 25 23:51:55 GMT 2011

Cluster Shared Volume Information: 0x0

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

mladen_zecevic — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:13:31 GMT

you have to specify a snapshot name that will be used as the base of creating the clone

lun clone create <clone_lunpath> [-o noreserve] -b <parent_lunpath> <parent_snap>

if there are no snapshots for the volume, you can create one.

regards,

Mladen

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

peter_lehmann — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:29:18 GMT

Looking at the first error message:

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

And you lun show -v... then the error message is correct. the LUN already exists!

If you clone a LUN, you need to clone it to a location where no LUN exists.

Peter

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

pascalduk — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 11:01:34 GMT

In your original post you used clone_flexclone as a snapshot. You did not specify the snapshot in this example.

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

TDUBB1234 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:00:48 GMT

i have not created any snapshot. so you are saying in order to clone a lun (not a volume) I need to create a snapshot of the volume first?

snap list shows

dataontap> snap list

Volume vol0

working...

%/used %/total date name

---------- ---------- ------------ --------

2% ( 2%) 1% ( 1%) Jul 26 16:00 hourly.0

10% ( 8%) 3% ( 2%) Jul 26 12:00 hourly.1

16% ( 8%) 5% ( 2%) Jul 26 08:01 hourly.2

22% ( 8%) 7% ( 2%) Jul 26 00:00 nightly.0

27% ( 8%) 9% ( 2%) Jul 25 20:00 hourly.3

31% ( 8%) 11% ( 2%) Jul 25 16:00 hourly.4

35% ( 8%) 13% ( 2%) Jul 25 12:00 hourly.5

38% ( 8%) 15% ( 2%) Jul 25 00:00 nightly.1

Volume flexvol0

working...

%/used %/total date name

---------- ---------- ------------ --------

2% ( 2%) 0% ( 0%) Jul 25 20:00 hourly.0

2% ( 0%) 0% ( 0%) Jul 25 16:00 hourly.1

2% ( 0%) 0% ( 0%) Jul 25 12:00 hourly.2

3% ( 0%) 0% ( 0%) Jul 25 08:00 hourly.3

3% ( 0%) 0% ( 0%) Jul 25 00:00 nightly.0

3% ( 0%) 0% ( 0%) Jul 24 20:00 hourly.4

3% ( 0%) 0% ( 0%) Jul 24 16:00 hourly.5

3% ( 0%) 0% ( 0%) Jul 24 00:00 nightly.1

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

TDUBB1234 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:27:07 GMT

ok so looks like I need to create a snapshot of the entire volume before I can do a do a clone of the lun?

I cannot snapshot the lun right? only a volume?

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

peter_lehmann — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:45:15 GMT

snapshot is ALWAYS the whole volume.

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

TDUBB1234 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:18:21 GMT

so a lun clone can only be created from a snapshot of a volume and not from the lun itself?

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

TDUBB1234 — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:14:17 GMT

can i restore a lun only and not a whole volume?

I created a lun clone. how do I restore a lun clone but not entire volume?

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

balbeer — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 01:17:18 GMT

so, you want to perform a "restore" of a LUN? not a clone, for temporary use?

if the above is what you want, then, the process our products take is called "LCSR" - LUN Clone Split Restore for a LUN type restore/recovery. For this, and if you are doing manual, then first, you do "LUN clone", and then followed by split the clone! This will place the recovered LUN in the same FlexVol as original!!!

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

TDUBB1234 — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:08:00 GMT

k i was able to split the lun clone from the parent lun with

lun clone split start -d /vol/flexvol0/iscsi_vol0_clone

now i have 2 luns occupying the same amount of space. how do i copy this lun over the other one? or restore the data to the original lun?

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

balbeer — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:44:14 GMT

that was expected! So, what you ahve done is, you had the old lun, and performed a clone, followed by split, this recovered a LUN from a specific snapshot, but now you have two luns! Here, if there recovered LUN has all the data you need, then just destroy the OLD lun whcih is not required!

Obviously you are executing all this manually, if you were to use SnapDrive for example, all you need is using the GUI, right-click and restore a LUN from a specific snapshot. IT will do exactly the above, and it will not retain the old LUN.

Thanks, balbeer

Re: lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

TDUBB1234 — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 04:58:27 GMT

i connected to the new lun via snapdrive but do not see an option to restore from a snapshot.

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

balbeer — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 05:03:05 GMT

the reason is, you have been taking snapshots at the storage layer, not using SnapDrive!!!

simuate this:

use snapdrive to create a snapshot, select the drive, right-click, and click on create snapshot

once the snapshot is created, expand the disks, and snapshots, and you will see a snapshot which is NOT greyed, this means it is created usign SnapDrive

right-click on the snapshot you have created using snapdrive, and select restore!

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

TDUBB1234 — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:21:35 GMT

so if i create a lun in the storage layer, i should not use snapdrive to manager that lun and vice versa?

lun clone create: A LUN exists at the path

andrc — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 01:18:02 GMT

Correct, it can be done if you know what you're doing but it's not Best Practice.