SnapMirror Copying But Not accessible?

[MichaelGov]

Hello!  I'm still relatively new to multi-cluster NAS management and SnapMirror, so please be gentle 🙂

I have NAS1 and NAS2, both are running NetApp Release 9.11.1P10.

on NAS1, I have an SVM called Backup and a volume called BackupVol.  I'm trying to snapMirror the data to NAS2's Backup_mirror SVM to a volume called vol_backup.  On NAS2/vol_backup, I can see that snapshots are being created.

--NAS1/Backup/BackupVol - SnapMirror (Local or Remote) is showing the relationship, Healthy and Mirrored

--NAS2/Backup_mirror/vol_backup - SnapMirror (Local or Remote) is showing nothing

--NAS2/Backup_mirror/vol_backup - Snapshot Copies is showing snapshots

The problem I'm having is accessing the data on NAS2.  when I try to NFS mount the volume Backup_mirror\vol_backup, I'm told there's no matching directory.  I can mount Backup_mirror\ successfully, so it's not an exportfs issue (I think), but I'm not seeing data.

Am I missing a step or a concept somewhere?

Thanks!

[MichaelGov · Accepted solution]

I would like to follow up that I missed the crucial step of actually creating the mountpoint within the ONTAP interface.  Once I did that, everything went smoothly.

Sigh

[ChLokesh]

Hello Michael,

Glad to hear that you were able to fix the issue by yourself.

Below is NetApp NFS best practice and implementation guide for your reference.

https://www.netapp.com/media/10720-tr-4067.pdf 

This will insure that we avoid common pitfalls and reduce errors going forward.