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NDMP Backup Fails on SnapMirror Synchronous Source with Non-Replicated Snapshot

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Applies to

  • NetApp ONTAP 9.13.1P11 and later
  • SnapMirror Synchronous (SM-S) relationships
  • NDMP backups (Commvault and similar backup applications)
  • Any FAS/AFF/ASA platform

Issue

  • NDMP backup jobs fail with errors similar to the following:

Error(Snapshot specified for backup of SSMSRC volume is not a replicated one. snapshot: snapshot_for_backup_cv_2_1234 errval=0 vol:cifs_vol_a3_fs_tsd01_Data(1) fsid:1165)

Error(Dump failed to initialize.)

Error(DUMP IS ABORTED)

[uninitialized] Error(Snapshot specified for backup of SSMSRC volume is not a replicated one. snapshot: snapshot_for_backup_cv_2_1234 errval=0 vol:cifs_vol_a3_fs_tsd01_Data(1) fsid:1165)

  • ONTAP event log may show:

sms.snap.not.replicated: Snapshot copy 'snapshot_for_backup_cv_2_1234' is not successfully replicated for the relationship ... Reason: Request failed on secondary.

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