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Command snapmirror initialize fails to restart after abort with restart checkpoint

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • SnapMirror with async-mirror policy type
  • SnapMirror relation is aborted with restart checkpoint

Issue

  • Command snapmirror initialize fails to restart transfer
  • Last Transfer Error of snapmirror show command indicates that destination volume is not an empty

Destination volume "<SVM>:<VOLUME>" must be an empty data-protection volume.

  • SNAPMIRROR-AUDIT-LOG-TXT.GZ indicates that ScheduledUpdate is started before aborting the relationship

ScheduledUpdate[Aug  9 09:28:23]:<RELATIONSHIP_ID> Operation-Uuid=<UUID> Group=none Operation-Cookie=0 action=Start source=<SOURCE_PATH> destination=<DESTINATION_PATH>
ScheduledUpdate[Aug  9 09:28:23]:<RELATIONSHIP_ID> Operation-Uuid=<UUID> Group=none Operation-Cookie=0 action=Transfer_snapshots (1 of 1 log entries): <SNAPSHOT>
Abort[Aug  9 09:28:23]:<RELATIONSHIP_ID> Operation-Uuid=<UUID> Group=none Operation-Cookie=0 action=Start source=<SOURCE_PATH> destination=<DESTINATION_PATH>
Abort[Aug  9 09:28:23]:<RELATIONSHIP_ID> Operation-Uuid=<UUID> Group=none Operation-Cookie=0 action=End source=<SOURCE_PATH> destination=<DESTINATION_PATH> status=Success

 

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