There's an open bug for that: 26017.
Its public notes are:
TITLE: Unable to delete busy snapshot DESCRIPTION: There are cases when the creation of a snapshot may be aborted, that will leave the resulting snapshot in a "busy" state. This has been known to occur when third party backup software and/or hardware does not gracefully handle tape spanning or mid-backup aborts. WORKAROUND: Reboot the filer to clear the snapshot "busy" state, and then delete the snapshot.
This bug will be fixed in a future release... :(
Eyal.
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-----Original Message----- From: BrianH@dice.com [mailto:BrianH@dice.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 4:19 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Unable to delete a snapshot
Hello, I have what could be a major problem soon. I have a snapshot that was created by an ndmpd session, that cannot be deleted. It looks like the backup must have failed, but the netapp thinks it is still running. Any ideas on how to delete the snapshot_for_backup.19?
dice-f740-1> snap list Volume vol0 working...............................................
%/used %/total date name ---------- ---------- ------------ -------- 2% ( 2%) 1% ( 1%) Nov 29 08:07 hourly.0 7% ( 5%) 4% ( 3%) Nov 29 00:08 nightly.0 9% ( 5%) 6% ( 3%) Nov 28 20:29 oraclebackup 10% ( 5%) 7% ( 3%) Nov 28 20:04 hourly.1 14% ( 6%) 9% ( 4%) Nov 28 16:04 hourly.2 16% ( 6%) 12% ( 4%) Nov 28 12:07 hourly.3 21% ( 9%) 16% ( 6%) Nov 28 08:05 hourly.4 24% (10%) 19% ( 7%) Nov 28 00:06 nightly.1 26% (10%) 21% ( 7%) Nov 27 20:06 hourly.5 31% (11%) 26% ( 8%) Nov 23 21:04 snapshot_for_backup.19 (busy) dice-f740-1> snap delete snapshot_for_backup.19 Snapshot in use by dump or a CIFS share. dice-f740-1>
Thanks, Brian