RE: snapvault - quiescing status - toasters

6 Apr 2006


      What versions of DataOnTap are the primary and secondary
running?  Have you checked to make sure the secondary volume
isn't full?
I had some issues snapvaulting from 6.4.1 to 7.0.1 where the
snapvaults would get stuck quiescing.  I'd do a 'snapvault update'
on the session that had a size listed (Ex: Quiescing  (122 GB done)),
which usually was able to get it unstuck.  Sometimes I would need to
do a abort and then update. That problem has been resolved by upgrading 
the primaries.
I frequently have trouble with snapvault filling the volume on
the secondary, and unfortunately, the only indication snapvault
gives is that it gets stuck quiescing.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]
On Behalf Of John Stoffel
Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 10:18 AM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: snapvault - quiescing status
Hi all,
I've got some NetApps which are snapvaulting across a large fat
network.  But I'm seeing a huge lag in my snapvaults and they're all
mostly in the quiescing state, with a lag upto 300 hours now.  Sigh...
Is there any way to speed up things?  Or to monitor the actual state
of the quiescing stage so I can hopefully figure out what the heck is
going on here?
Here's a status from the secondary side of things:
Snapvault secondary is ON.
Source:                 marlfs1:/vol/data01/narad
    Destination:            sjdr0:/vol/marlfs1_data01/narad
    Status:                 Quiescing
    Progress:               -
    State:                  Snapvaulted
    Lag:                    307:12:16
    Mirror Timestamp:       Fri Mar 24 14:00:34 PST 2006
    Base Snapshot:          sjdr0(0050404441)_marlfs1_data01-base.168
    Current Transfer Type:  -
    Current Transfer Error: -
    Contents:               Transitioning
    Last Transfer Type:     Retry
    Last Transfer Size:     13012 KB
    Last Transfer Duration: 00:06:45
    Last Transfer From:     marlfs1:/vol/data01/narad
Here's the status from the source side:
Source:                 marlfs1:/vol/data01/narad
    Destination:            sjdr0:/vol/marlfs1_data01/narad
    Status:                 Idle
    Progress:               -
    State:                  Source
    Lag:                    145:16:04
    Mirror Timestamp:       Fri Mar 31 11:00:02 EST 2006
    Base Snapshot:          sv_hourly.2
    Current Transfer Type:  -
    Current Transfer Error: -
    Contents:               -
    Last Transfer Type:     -
    Last Transfer Size:     13012 KB
    Last Transfer Duration: 00:06:45
    Last Transfer From:     -
Thanks,
John