With SnapMirror (and vol copy for that matter), you must have at least the same amount of TOTAL space on the destination as you have on the source. This is because SnapMirror is a block for block copy.

To move data to a smaller volume, you'll need to do something like ndmpcopy. This works well for the scenario you describe.

Hope this helps.

-- Adam Fox NetApp Professional Services, NC adamfox@netapp.com

-----Original Message----- From: Kelly McQuarrie [mailto:kellym@sd.us.am.ericsson.se] Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 4:32 PM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: snapmirror volume sizes

Hello all:

I think I know that answer to this one but I figured I would put it out here just to make sure I'm right.

I wanted to use snapmirror to migrate a volume to a different filer. This volume is 225Gigs but it only has 68Gigs of data on it. If I'm to use snapmirror to do this then I need to migrate it to a 225Gig volume correct? I wanted to shrink the volume while I was at it so I'm thinking I'm going to have to do it another way.

Has anybody had experience with this?

Thx

Kelly McQuarrie Unix System Administrator Ericsson CDMA Systems