I'm going to use Snap Mirror to replicate our CIFS volume to another filer in a different site. On the source filer we have a number of shares setup that point to the source volume. Once the volume has been mirrored using snapmirror do I have to manually create the shares on the destination filer?
If you configure mirroring with Protection Manager using a DR-enabled protection policy, it will automatically copy the export information (NFS exports, CIFS shares and LUN mappings) to the DR volumes. This is done out-of-band since ONTAP does not know how to mirror these settings by itself.