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Out Of Sync message is generated for the SM-S relationship with reason: Illegal character in filename

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • SnapMirror Synchronous (SM-S)

Issue

After the creation of a CIFS character-mapping for the source volume, the Following Out-of-sync EMS message is being generated for the SM-S relationship on the source cluster
 
EMS.log
 
sms.status.out.of.sync: Source volume "<vserverid>:<source_vol_name>" and destination volume "<destverserverid>:<dest_vol_name>" with relationship UUID "<relationship_uuid>" is in "out-of-sync" status due to the following reason:
"Transfer failed.(Volume access error(Illegal character in filename(Refer to the corresponding sms.status.out.of.sync EMS generated on the SnapMirror destination cluster for more details on the OutOfSync reason.If the SnapMirror destination does not generate an OutOfSync EMS this could be a transient failure during a resync operation.)))".

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