Discrepancy between the creation time and the actual scheduled time for the LTR snapshot

Applies to

• ONTAP
• Snapmirror
• Long-Term Retention Snapshots

Issue

• Discrepancy between the creation time and the scheduled time of Long-Term Retention (LTR) snapshots in the SnapMirror destination volume.

DstCluster::> snap list (volumename) -fields create-time

vserver volume snapshot create-time

-------------- --------- -------------------------- ------------------------
vservername volumename sv_monthly.2025-06-01_0230 Sun Jun 01 01:00:01 2025

Dstcluster::> snapmirror policy show -policy (policyname) -instance

                      Vserver: Vservername

       SnapMirror Policy Name: policyname

       SnapMirror Policy Type: mirror-vault

      
 Rules:

 SnapMirror Label       Keep Preserve Warn Schedule Prefix     Retention Period

 ---------------------- ---- -------- ---- -------- ---------- ----------------

 sm_created                1 false       0 -        -                         -

 sv_daily                  7 false       0 -        -                     7days

 sv_monthly               60 false       0 sv_monthly sv_monthly              -

DstCluster::*> cron show sv_monthly

  (job schedule cron show)

Cluster Vserver  Name        Description

------- -------- ----------- --------------------------------------------------

clustername

        vservername

                 sv_monthly  Jan-Dec 1@2:30