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Disable local protection for Application

DavidFartouk
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Hi, 

We have two applications configured on ontap 9.4 and we would like to disable the automatic snapshots:

application show-detail :

 

=============================================================================
Vserver: ISCSI-NFS-DR
Application: driscsids02
Application Template: VSIOnSAN
=============================================================================

Application Protection Information
----------------------------------
Is Supported: true
Is Protected: true
Local RPO: hourly
Local RPO Description: 24 hourly, 7 daily, 2 weekly snapshots
Remote RPO: none
Remote RPO Description: none

SAN Storage Element
-------------------
Component: vsidata_ds
Storage Service: value
Element: driscsids02_lun
Path: /vol/driscsids02_sata/driscsids02_lun
Serial Number: 816Zq]NrSkuX
Size: 5TB
Igroups: DR-ESXI-HOSTS
LUN IDs: 1

 

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Ontapforrum
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Don't know if  your question is that simple or there is more to it.

 

Ok, anyway this is what you can do to disable the automatic snapshots: 

 

1) Go to SVM : ISCSI-NFS-DR
2) Go to this volume : driscsids02_sata
3) There should be menu items on the top (Not sure, how GUI looks in 9.4, take a look in ONTAP Docs), look for 'snapshot copies' and click Configure, there should be 'Enable schedule snapshots', basically here you can 'disable' automatic or storage side snapshoting. This is a storage side snapshot (Basically crash-consistent), if it's an application then there will some sort of 'snapshots' triggered via backup-host (snapcenter or any 3rd Party software).

 

Looking at the Volume PATH:
Path: /vol/driscsids02_sata/driscsids02_lun

 

In cDOT, we don't use /vol/, it's just root '/'. So, that volume must have been migrated from 7-mode filer ?

 

In any case, you should be able to disable 'automatic' snapshots using the steps mentioned above.

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Ontapforrum
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Don't know if  your question is that simple or there is more to it.

 

Ok, anyway this is what you can do to disable the automatic snapshots: 

 

1) Go to SVM : ISCSI-NFS-DR
2) Go to this volume : driscsids02_sata
3) There should be menu items on the top (Not sure, how GUI looks in 9.4, take a look in ONTAP Docs), look for 'snapshot copies' and click Configure, there should be 'Enable schedule snapshots', basically here you can 'disable' automatic or storage side snapshoting. This is a storage side snapshot (Basically crash-consistent), if it's an application then there will some sort of 'snapshots' triggered via backup-host (snapcenter or any 3rd Party software).

 

Looking at the Volume PATH:
Path: /vol/driscsids02_sata/driscsids02_lun

 

In cDOT, we don't use /vol/, it's just root '/'. So, that volume must have been migrated from 7-mode filer ?

 

In any case, you should be able to disable 'automatic' snapshots using the steps mentioned above.

DavidFartouk
3,005 Views

Hi, 

Thanks for the reply. 

the snapshot configuration is not present on the volumes/luns  we can only see it as part of the application 

 

Ontapforrum
2,997 Views

Ok, just give me the screenshot of snapshots for that volume, either via GUI or use following CLI:
::> snapshot show -vserver ISCSI-NFS-DR -volume driscsids02_sata

 

This will easily tell us 'what type of snapshots are configured' .

DavidFartouk
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Hi, 

Due to the capacity issues that the snapshots was causing we had to delete the application dr-iscsi and create new simple volume. Now we only have one netapp application with this issue - but it is much larger and we can not delete it:

=============================================================================
Vserver: ISCSI-NFS-DR
Application: drnfsds03
Application Template: VSIOnNAS
=============================================================================

Application Protection Information
----------------------------------
Is Supported: true
Is Protected: true
Local RPO: hourly
Local RPO Description: 24 hourly, 7 daily, 2 weekly snapshots
Remote RPO: none
Remote RPO Description: none

NAS Storage Element
-------------------
Component: vsidata_ds
Storage Service: value
Element: drnfsds03_sata
Path: /drnfsds03_vsidata_ds_1
Size: 40TB
Export Policy: esxi-dr-host
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We are manually deleting the snapshots as they fill up my storage: 

 

-c01::application*> snapshot show -vserver ISCSI-NFS-DR

Vserver: ISCSI-NFS-DR

Application: drnfsds03
Protection Group: drnfsds03
Snapshot Creation Time Type
---------------------------------------- ------------------------ -----------
pg-hourly.2020-08-13_1730 Thu Aug 13 17:30:00 2020 crash
pg-hourly.2020-08-13_1830 Thu Aug 13 18:30:00 2020 crash
pg-hourly.2020-08-13_1930 Thu Aug 13 19:30:00 2020 crash
pg-hourly.2020-08-13_2030 Thu Aug 13 20:30:00 2020 crash
pg-hourly.2020-08-13_2130 Thu Aug 13 21:30:00 2020 crash
pg-hourly.2020-08-13_2230 Thu Aug 13 22:30:00 2020 crash
pg-hourly.2020-08-13_2330 Thu Aug 13 23:30:00 2020 crash
pg-daily.2020-08-14_0010 Fri Aug 14 00:10:00 2020 crash
pg-hourly.2020-08-14_0030 Fri Aug 14 00:30:01 2020 crash
pg-hourly.2020-08-14_0130 Fri Aug 14 01:30:00 2020 crash
pg-hourly.2020-08-14_0230 Fri Aug 14 02:30:01 2020 crash
pg-hourly.2020-08-14_0330 Fri Aug 14 03:30:02 2020 crash
pg-hourly.2020-08-14_0430 Fri Aug 14 04:30:04 2020 crash
pg-hourly.2020-08-14_0530 Fri Aug 14 05:30:00 2020 crash
pg-hourly.2020-08-14_0630 Fri Aug 14 06:30:00 2020 crash
pg-hourly.2020-08-14_0730 Fri Aug 14 07:30:00 2020 crash
pg-hourly.2020-08-14_0830 Fri Aug 14 08:30:00 2020 crash
17 entries were displayed.

 

thanks

BFry
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you can try disabling the 'pg-' snapshot policies

 

cluster::*> volume snapshot policy modify -policy
default default-1weekly default-4weekly
none pg-rpo-15-minutely pg-rpo-6-hourly
pg-rpo-hourly pg-rpo-hourly-set2 pg-rpo-hourly-set3
pg-rpo-hourly-set4

 

cluster::*> volume snapshot policy modify -policy pg-rpo-hourly -enabled false

 

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