Cannot offline volume due to "volume busy"
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- NDMP
- Volume offline
Issue
- Volume offline is fails with the following:
vol offline: Error offlining volume "VSERVER:VOLNAME". Unable to set volume attributes for
volume "VOLNAME" on Vserver "VSERVER". Reason: Volume busy.
- In EMS you could also see:
[wafl.offline.volref.msg:notice]: 'dump' prevents 'offline' of 'volume VOLNAME'.