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SnapMirror or SVMDR initialize fails with error "Failed to write volume attributes for volume"

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • SnapMirror
  • SVMDR

Issue

  • SVMDR failed to Initialize for one volume 

Failed to start transfer for Snapshot copy "Snapshot_name". (Failed to start transfer. (Failed to write volume attributes for volume "vserver:dest_volume" (Invalid argument)))

  • EMS logs will show the following error :
<LR d="09Nov2020 14:11:26" n="psi01013-mgmt-01" t="1604931086" id="1600786553/31901" p="7" s="Ok" o="wafl_exempt01" vf="" type="0" seq="32665" supp="1" >
<wafl_repl_set_vol_config_1
        errorCode="22"
        errString="Invalid argument"
        file="file unknown"
        line="0"
        volFsid="1076"
        volName="dest_volume"
        attrs_mask="0x178f"
        bool_attrs_mask="0x1ff"
        maxdirsize="81457000"  
        total_inos="105263158"
        provenance_id="0433766e-f36b-11ea-b981-d039ea1ec071"
        vmalign_offset="0"
        vmalign_suffix=""
        transfer_size="0"
        flags="0x114"
        SnapMirrorID="56000d0a-2293-11eb-9f4b-00a098c61ce0"
        compression_capability="0"
        compression_algorithm="0"/>
</LR>

 

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