ontap manual snapshost expiry time

[kbhonagiri]

Hi Everyone,

I have created a snapshot from Ontap API with expiry time and it is not getting deleted automatically after the expire time. is this expected ? How can we make sure it is deleted after expiry time?

Kalyan

[mbeattie]

Hi Kalyan,

The -expiry-time snapshot parameter is for snaplock.

[-expiry-time {MM/DD/YYYY HH:MM:SS [{+|-}hh:mm] | infinite}] - SnapLock Expiry Time

    Specifies the new snaplock expiry that is applied to Snapshot copy locked by SnapLock.

When using SnapLock volumes, snapshots can't be deleted until their retention period has expired. If you are not using SnapLock then manually created snapshots must be manually deleted (although that process could be automated).

What process are you trying to achieve via the API? Assuming you are creating a manual snapshot for some purposes then having some automation that schedules the deletion of that snapshot after X hours, days etc, then i would recommend your code compares the date difference of the snapshot creation time to the current time, if greater than or equal to Y then delete the snapshot.

/Matt