Leigh,
If you cannot reboot the filer, there is an unsupported way to free the snapshot. ndmpd is probably holding the snap even if ndmpd status shows nothing.
You can run the advanced "ps" command and kill ndmpd. If you're not comfortable doing this, I don't blame you. Just reboot the filer :)
Here are some details:
polarbear> snap list proj_c5ksw Volume proj_c5ksw working...................................................................
%/used %/total date name ---------- ---------- ------------ -------- 3% ( 3%) 2% ( 2%) Dec 07 00:07 nightly.0 11% (10%) 7% ( 7%) Dec 06 00:07 nightly.1 12% (11%) 8% ( 8%) Dec 05 00:07 nightly.2 27% (24%) 23% (20%) Nov 03 10:06 snapshot_for_backup.156 (busy) 35% (27%) 34% (24%) Oct 16 23:34 snapshot_for_backup.97 (busy) polarbear> rc_toggle_basic polarbear*> java netapp.cmds.jsh jsh> ps Pri Group Name 1 system Finalizer thread 5 main main 5 main Servlet Engine 5 main ndmpdclassloader 5 main ndmpdserver 5 main jsh 5 Ndmpd16 Thread-30 5 Ndmpd75 Thread-89 jsh> kill -9 Thread-30 <---- kill the Ndmpd thread(s) by name. jsh> kill -9 Thread-89 jsh> jsh> ndmpd killall jsh> <--- wait between 2 and 10 mins (depends on size of snapshot) jsh> snap list proj_c5ksw
/Brian/
On Fri, 2002-12-20 at 13:35, Leigh David Heyman wrote:
Hi, I have a snapshot_for_backup which snap list reports as "busy" but it's not. There's no backups currently running. However, when I try to delete this snapshot I get "Snapshot in use by dump or a CIFS share." I've confirmed that dump is not running, nor are any of the cifs sessions touching it. How can I get rid of this snapshot? My snap reserve is about to get dangerously full.
Thanks,
-Leigh