It may have something to do with the fact that SnapVault 'stitches' snapshots together on the back end - by that I mean that there is a coalescing function that puts the multitude of individually transferred snapshots together once they are all on the destination system and it makes it one single destination snapshot.

Glenn

-----Original Message----- From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of ec0li Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 5:26 AM To: toasters@mathworks.com Subject: Snap status and wafl scan

Hello,

When I check snap status, I see next to recent snapshots : (xxxx/xxxx remaining). Also, It seems that this is in fact the wafl scan process "snap create summary update"

Does anyone knows what is this process, its purpose, what happens if the system reboots during this,...

I'm asking this because on one system with lots of snapshots(snapvault) this process seems to never finish. In fact, each time a new snap is transfered the counter restarts from the beginning but has not enough time to finish until a new snapshot is created. Consequence : in snap status I see more and more snapshots with (xxx/xxx remaingint) on the right.

Thanks in advance for your answers!