topic &quot;SDCLI snapvault archive&quot; fails to execute randomly, where to check logs in Microsoft Virtualization Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/Microsoft-Virtualization-Discussions/quot-SDCLI-snapvault-archive-quot-fails-to-execute-randomly-where-to-check-logs/m-p/15022#M778 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>On the secondary filer you could check /etc/log/auditlog to see if the snapvault update command is run, if so then check /etc/log/snapmirror to see if there's a reason the transfer fails. The files rotate through auditlog, auditlog.0, auditlog.1 etc etc as they get older.</P><P>You can also take a look at `snapvault status -l` on the secondary to see if it gives a reason for transfer failure.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:43:38 GMT andrc 2011-10-13T03:43:38Z "SDCLI snapvault archive" fails to execute randomly, where to check logs https://community.netapp.com/t5/Microsoft-Virtualization-Discussions/quot-SDCLI-snapvault-archive-quot-fails-to-execute-randomly-where-to-check-logs/m-p/15017#M776 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi,</P><P></P><P>Does "sdcli snapvault archive" example shown below, maintain the command execution logs somehere ?</P><P></P><P>sdcli snapvault archive -m &lt;Server&gt; -force -a &lt;Snapshot&gt; -DS P:\data&nbsp; &lt;Primary_Snapshot&gt;</P><P></P><P>Our issue is this command works good sometime but sometime it is executed and also shows backupset submitted successfully, but no transfer occur from Primary to Secondary storage, in fact the Primary filer log messages doesn't show any indication of this snapvault archive request at all.</P><P></P><P>Just wondering where to look for errors, or if possible how to enable SDCLI snapvault debug logging?</P><P></P><P>Thx --Sanjeev</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:43:49 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Microsoft-Virtualization-Discussions/quot-SDCLI-snapvault-archive-quot-fails-to-execute-randomly-where-to-check-logs/m-p/15017#M776 spabbi 2025-06-05T06:43:49Z "SDCLI snapvault archive" fails to execute randomly, where to check logs https://community.netapp.com/t5/Microsoft-Virtualization-Discussions/quot-SDCLI-snapvault-archive-quot-fails-to-execute-randomly-where-to-check-logs/m-p/15022#M778 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>On the secondary filer you could check /etc/log/auditlog to see if the snapvault update command is run, if so then check /etc/log/snapmirror to see if there's a reason the transfer fails. The files rotate through auditlog, auditlog.0, auditlog.1 etc etc as they get older.</P><P>You can also take a look at `snapvault status -l` on the secondary to see if it gives a reason for transfer failure.</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 13 Oct 2011 03:43:38 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Microsoft-Virtualization-Discussions/quot-SDCLI-snapvault-archive-quot-fails-to-execute-randomly-where-to-check-logs/m-p/15022#M778 andrc 2011-10-13T03:43:38Z