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Snapshot restore of the volume protected by SVM DR fails

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Applies to

  • ONTAP 9
  • SVM DR

Issue

Attempts to restore a snapshot older than a Snapshot with an associated SVM DR relationship fails with the following error message:

Error: command failed: Failed to promote Snapshot copy "NAME" because one or more newer Snapshot copies are currently 
used as a reference Snapshot copy for data protection operations: "vserverdr_snapshot".

 

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