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Snapshot report via email

egrigson1 — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:45:27 GMT

Given the quick and enthusiastic response to the Netapp Powershell Toolkit I'm surprised to see no scripts in here. Mine's pretty basic but at least I get to be first!

This script will simply pull out details of all snapshots over a specified age from a list of filers and send an HTML formatted email to a list of recipients. Obviously it can easily be scheduled for regular reporting. Thanks to fjohn for the snapshot code - as a Powershell newbie I'd probably have struggled with that.

Regards,

Ed.

Re: Snapshot report via email

fjohn — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:18:28 GMT

Thanks,

I'm glad you found it useful. My snippets are meant to be more of ideas of what could be than anything else. They're meant to inspire othere to create solutions. 🙂

Happy Scripting

Re: Snapshot report via email

robertvra — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 00:31:14 GMT

Great script and very usefull...does anybody know how i could include whether the snaps are busy in this report?

Re: Snapshot report via email

egrigson1 — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:00:17 GMT

It's pretty simple to check for a busy snapshot, you can just use the snapshot's 'busy' property. I've added this to the report - see the attached file.

Regards,

Ed.

Re: Snapshot report via email

srikanthmutyala — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:44:25 GMT

Can this be done thru UNIX. Please let me know if some has the script on UNIX for this.

TIA

Sri

Re: Snapshot report via email

cknight — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:59:21 GMT

Hello, Sri. The scripts in this community area based on the Data ONTAP PowerShell Toolkit, so they may only be run on Windows. To accomplish something similar from UNIX, you would need to use the NetApp Manageability SDK with perl or Java, but it would probably take a little more effort to get there!

Re: Snapshot report via email

MWWOODSSA — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 22:59:09 GMT

Hi,

Ed, your script works great for what I need. Thank you for sharing! Have you considered a snippet of code inside to disregard offline volumes? When I run the script I get "Get-NaSnapshot : The specified volume <name> is offline." along with a few other lines of Powershell error text. I haven't learned to use Powershell well enough yet to be doing my own coding, but trying to learn. Would this be difficult to do?

Mike

Re: Snapshot report via email

cknight — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:21:35 GMT

Mike, try this: Get-NaSnapshot -ErrorAction Ignore

Re: Snapshot report via email

MWWOODSSA — Fri, 07 Mar 2014 23:43:04 GMT

Thank you for your help, Clinton! This works...

Get-NaSnapshot -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue

Re: Snapshot report via email

seffysefix — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 13:34:04 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to send an email only if the last backup is older than X days?

Thanks,

Re: Snapshot report via email

Nat-M — Mon, 01 Jun 2015 16:09:56 GMT

Great Script. Very helpful.

Re: Snapshot report via email

Nperi357 — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 11:40:49 GMT

can we add aggregate info in this report next to volume ??