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Snapvault busy and can not delete

ronpask01 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:14:03 GMT

We have a snapvault that has been running since June of last year. The thing is that all the snapvaults are idle. This snapvault is taking up 175G of space and today it's up at 200+gb.

We do not know what it is doing. We want to stop and delete it. Can someone help?

Re: Snapvault busy and can not delete

michaelalbers — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:21:45 GMT

On primary you have to use 'snapvault release <pri_path> <sec_system>:<sec_path>'

On secondary use 'snapvault stop <sec_path>'. This command deletes all the data on the secondary volume but doesn't delete the snapvault backup snapshots.

To clarify things please post more informations. 'snapvault status -l /vol/<volume>', 'snap list <volume>' .

Re: Snapvault busy and can not delete

ronpask01 — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:31:10 GMT

filer>

snapvault status -l /vol/OSSV_nike_memphis_mem03_2

Snapvault secondary is

ON.

filer> snap list OSSV_nike_memphis_mem03_2

Volume

OSSV_nike_memphis_mem03_2

working...

%/used       %/total date          name
---------- ----------
------------ --------
0% ( 0%)    0% ( 0%) Dec 10 12:46
memana03(0135019865)_OSSV_nike_memphis_mem03_2_d.1 (snapmirror)
0% ( 0%)
0% ( 0%) Dec 10 11:20 memfna07(0101205193)_OSSV_nike_memphis_mem03_2-base.3839
(busy,snapvault)
7% ( 7%)    4% ( 4%) Dec 10 07:56 dfm_sv_hourly.0

9% ( 2%)    5% ( 1%) Dec 10 07:42 dfm_sv_hourly.1
10% ( 2%)    5% ( 1%)
Dec 10 04:42 memfna07(0101205193)_OSSV_nike_memphis_mem03_2-base.3833
12% (
2%)    6% ( 1%) Dec 10 00:28 dfm_sv_hourly.2
29% (22%)   19% (13%) Dec 09
11:31 dfm_sv_hourly.3
31% ( 3%)   21% ( 1%) Dec 09 00:46
dfm_sv_hourly.4
40% (18%)   31% (10%) Dec 08 07:44 dfm_sv_hourly.5
41%
( 3%)   33% ( 1%) Dec 08 03:09 dfm_sv_hourly.6
42% ( 3%)   34% ( 2%) Dec
08 00:23 dfm_sv_hourly.7
50% (21%)   47% (13%) Dec 07 07:38
dfm_sv_hourly.8
50% ( 2%)   48% ( 1%) Dec 07 03:42 dfm_sv_hourly.9
51%
( 3%)   49% ( 2%) Dec 07 02:04 dfm_sv_hourly.10
52% ( 3%)   50% ( 1%) Dec
07 00:44 dfm_sv_hourly.11
56% (16%)   59% ( 9%) Dec 06 06:06
dfm_sv_hourly.12
56% ( 3%)   61% ( 1%) Dec 06 02:48
dfm_sv_hourly.13
61% (22%)   74% (13%) Jun 20 03:00
memana03_ossv_windows_nr1.844 (busy,snapvault)
memfna07>

Re: Snapvault busy and can not delete

michaelalbers — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 20:53:32 GMT

Are there multiple snapvault relationships for this volume in the output of 'snapvault status'?

My first command wasn`t complete.

Please post output of command 'snapvault status -l <sec_path>' (including qtree) for each snapvault relationship on volume OSSV_nike_memphis_mem03_2