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Cannot delete a SnapMirror snapshot after a failed SnapMirror initialization

Cannot delete a SnapMirror snapshot after a failed SnapMirror initialization

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Category:: snapmirror

Specialty:: dp

Last Updated:

Applies to

ONTAP 9

Issue

An attempt to delete a snapshot fails after a snapmirror initialize failure

::> snapshot delete -vserver vs1 -volume vol_src -snapshot snapshot_name

Error: command failed: This Snapshot copy is currently used as a reference Snapshot copy by one or more SnapMirror relationships. Deleting the Snapshot copy can cause future SnapMirror operations to fail.