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SC 3.4 not deleteing Snap created via sdcli

thorsten_pfeifer
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Hi all

I'm still playing around with SC. Till now I'm able to get DB2 snaps. That's really nice. But although I have configured Snapshots Deletion with Yes, hourly retention with 3 and policy retention age with 1 all created snaps done using sdcli are still there. I assumed that only 3 per day should be listed with the previous mention configuration.

Here the specific line from the conf file

  • NTAP_SNAPSHOT_NODELETE=Y
  • NTAP_SNAPSHOT_RETENTIONS=hourly:3
  • NTAP_SNAPSHOT_RETENTION_AGE=1

What's going wrong here?

Best regards

Thorsten

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ktenzer
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Yeah the reason SC isnt deleting any snapshots is that the snapshots are not named sohp16gdcvi1302-hourly-20110913154000 instead they are named smvi__sohp16gdcvi1302-hourly-20110913154000_recent__20110913154037.

SC does not support any naming conventions other than it's own.

You can try updating smvi.override so that smvi doesnt change the name of the snapshots

Add in smvi.override :

snapshot.name.format.timestamp={backupName}

But other than that I cant help you further

Maybe talk to the smvi folks or snapdrive folks?

Keith

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