SnapMirror relationships report a Preparing relationship status
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- SnapMirror
- SnapVault
- Unified Replication
Issue
snapmirror show
or OnCommand System Manager reports a SnapMirror Relationship Status of "Preparing" for a significant amount of time.
ClusterA::> snapmirror show
Progress
Source Destination Mirror Relationship Total Last
Path Type Path State Status Progress Healthy Updated
----------- ---- ------------ ------- -------------- --------- ------- --------
svmSource:volSource
XDP svmDest:volDest
Snapmirrored
Preparing 98.17GB true 01/01 12:00:00
- The Preparing operation may run longer and appear to transfer more data than a typical update operation.
- In some cases, scheduled updates will be missed causing the relationship to report unhealthy with the error:
Scheduled update was delayed because another SnapMirror operation for the relationship is in progress