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Unable to delete volume with SnapLock-Expiry-Time set on snapshots

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • Non-SnapLock volumes with SnapLock-enabled snapshots

Issue

  • Attempts to delete a volume containing snapshots with a SnapLock-expiry-time result in an error:
Error: command failed: Failed to delete volume <volume_name> in Vserver <vserver_name>. The volume has one or more unexpired locked Snapshot copies.
  • Attempts to disable snapshot locking on the volume using the following command also fail:
Command Example:
 
vol modify -vserver <vserver_name> -volume <volume_name> -snapshot-locking-enabled false
 
Error Example:
 
command failed: Unable to set volume attribute "snapshot-locking-enabled" for volume <volume_name> on Vserver <vserver_name>. Reason: The specified volume operation did not succeed because the volume has unexpired locked snapshots.

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