Trying to sort out the order of who said what... [try and keep this in a sane order for the sake of the toaster-lurkers, folks! there's altogether too much Jeopardy posting (answer before question) going on]
PrJain@shastanets.com (Premanshu Jain) wrote:
I have some snapshots created by failed backup processes and shows them busy still. How can I delete them..?
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19% (15%) 17% (12%) Aug 20 21:52 snapshot_for_backup.32 (busy) 20% (15%) 17% (12%) Aug 19 22:46 snapshot_for_backup.30 (busy) 21% (15%) 19% (12%) Aug 17 04:08 snapshot_for_backup.23 (busy)
and J. Bryan Kelsch mrb@netapp.com is indirectly reported as replying:
< You have to reboot first.
to which PrJain@shastanets.com (Premanshu Jain) understandably responds:
Oh..This is CRAZY on part of NetAPPS...!!!!!!!!!!
If the snapshots had been busy as a result of a "dump" command being active it's been my experience that one can persuade the dump to fail and that will release the busy lock.
Can it really be that much worse with NDMP ? Can't the outstanding dumps be killed off with judicious use of "ndmpd kill" ?
Chris Thompson University of Cambridge Computing Service, Email: cet1@ucs.cam.ac.uk New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG, Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom.