CONTAP-350577: SnapMirror Cloud FlexGroup cascade transfers fail with No more snapshots available
Issue
SnapMirror transfers on the C2C leg of a FlexGroup cascade (A→B→C, where C is a cloud object-store) fail repeatedly. Symptoms include:
- snapmirror show reports Healthy: false with Unhealthy Reason: Transfer failed
- Last Transfer Error:
Failed to create Snapshot copy snapmirror.<uuid>_<id>.<timestamp> on volume <vserver>#COLON|<volume>. (No more snapshots available)
or:
Failed to setup transfer.(Volume access error(Undefined error#COLON| 10004)) - Snapshot copies accumulate on the source volume well beyond the SnapMirror policy keep count
- Lag time increases continuously; relationship does not self-recover after retries, aborts, or node reboot
