I was going to suggest that you convert the SnapVault relationship into a SnapMirror Relationship
(snapmirror convert - in priv set diag mode)

BUT you've been promiscuous (or rather Filer B)... vaulting to Filer C broke the relationship for good.
They were separated, you divorced them (irreconcilable differences - i.e. no common SnapVault snapshot anymore, probably).

Another question to clarify: Filer B *doesn't* have the 8 years of monthly snapshots, that are on Filer A?
I thought you said you snapvaulted to Filer B. I would have expected the 8 years *plus* the new stuff on Filer B.

With a Volume SnapMirror you could have easily transferred the missing bits back to Filer A (as long as there's still a 'common' SnapShot)

Short of a PS engagement I don't see a (publicly available) way to merge the volumes again.
I'd probably go along the line of 'archiving' the Filer A volume, making a clone on the base of the last common SnapShot with Filer B, and SnapMirror resync'ing the current contents of Filer B (including all snapshots) back to A. Thereafter you might even flip the mirror again and re-convert the SnapMirror relationship to a SnapVault...

my 2cents

Sebastian

On 06.02.2013 19:41, Steven Kreuzer wrote:

We don't have a license for snapmirror, but maybe I could make the argument its worth getting. It looks like snapmirror resync is what I need to do.

Just to confirm, since I have not worked with snapmirror in the past:

After Filer B became the primary filer for home directories, it has accumulated about 3 months worth of data and snapshots. At the beginning of each month, I take a snapshot of the volume and keep that around forever.

On filer A I 8 years worth of monthly snapshots up until 10/2012 and then on filer B I have monthly snapshot from 11/2012 to 02/2013.

I can not lose the snapshots that are currently on filer A and I would also like to bring over the snapshots from filer b and just kinda merge them into the volume. A snapmirror resync is capable of this?.

While Filer A was offline, I was snapvaulting filer B to filer C so as it currently stands, Filer A and Filer B have no snapvault or snapmirror relationship whatso ever

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Thomas Nail <tnail@austin.utexas.edu> wrote:

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If SnapMirror is licensed, I would urge that course: it's probably the
least disruptive and is significantly easier than rsync, IMHO.

cheers,

- -=Tom Nail

On Tue, 5 Feb 2013 14:54:24 -0500
Steven Kreuzer <skreuzer@freebsd.org> wrote:

> I opened up a case with NetApp about this, but I figured I should
> also post here and see what the community has to say.
>
> In a nutshell, I have two separate clusters and a volume with home
> directories on Filer_A that I was snapvaulting to Filer_B.
>
> During the hurricane, I had to shut down Filer_A, break the snapvault
> relationship on Filer_B to promote the volume to RW and then started
> to have everyone use Filer_B as their home.
>
> Folks have been working on Filer_B for 3 or so months now but I am
> ready to flip back and make Filer_A the primary once again.
>
> What are my options for basically taking all the new data as well as
> the snapshots that are on Filer_B and syncing them back to Filer_A,
> without losing any of the snapshots that currently exist on Filer_A?
>
> Right now the only option that comes to mind is the use rsync and
> copy a snapshot from Filer_B to Filer_A, take a snapshot on Filer_A,
> and repeat that process over and over until they have all been
> recreated on Filer_A.
>
> With that, does anyone have any better suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance

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