Thanks for all the quick responses. The available solutions are
a) Snapvault
b) Protection Manager
c) Scripting, which I chose to do (using snapdrive):
$SD snap create -hostvol $DB_DEVICE -snapname snap.0.tmp
if [ $? -eq 1 ]
then
echo "Snapshot creation returned non-zero errorlevel!"
exit 1
fi
$SD snap delete $SYSTEM:/vol/$NA_VOL:snap.$RETENTION
while [ $RETENTION -gt 0 ]
do
((TMP_RET=$RETENTION-1))
$SD snap rename $SYSTEM:/vol/$NA_VOL:snap.$TMP_RET
snap.$RETENTION
((RETENTION=$RETENTION-1))
done
$SD snap rename $SYSTEM:/vol/$NA_VOL:snap.0.tmp snap.0
I would love if the filer's 'snap autodelete' could have the
functionality in the future.
Daniel
________________________________
From: Daniel Keisling
Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2008 10:14 AM
To: 'toasters(a)mathworks.com'
Subject: Automatically delete snapshots based on number and not space
availability
Greetings,
I take a daily snapshots (named ss-YYYYMMDDHHmm) of several volumes on
my filers. I would like to automatically delete the oldest snapshot
(assuming it's not busy) when a certain number of snapshots are present
in the volume (ie, only keep the latest 3 snapshots). Is this possible?
If not, does anyone have any scripts where it can be done from a host?
TIA,
Daniel
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