Snapshot Deletion Issues in Trident with ONTAP and CloneSplit Behavior
Applies to
- Trident
- Velero or any 3rd party backup solution
Issue
- Snapshots created for Kubernetes Persistent Volumes (PVs) via Trident were not being deleted as expected after backup operations.
- Velero logs showed snapshot deletion requests, but Trident returned errors such as:
level=error msg="Unable to delete snapshot from backend." error="snapshot ... is busy"level=error msg="GRPC error: rpc error: code=Unknown desc=snapshot ... is busy"level=info msg="Began splitting clone from snapshot."
- There are offline clones and their related snapshots remaining on the storage after the Velero backup.
