Shadowcopy failure with Disc quota exceeded for VM backup
Applies to
- ONTAP
- CIFS
- QTree
- Hyper-V
- EMC Networker
Issue
Virtual Machine backup failed with error "shadow copy operation has failed" with reason "Disc quota exceeded"
Example:
Mon Mar 23 16:12:04 GMT [Node-01: mgwd: cifs.shadowcopy.failure:error]: A shadow copy operation has failed: CommitShadowCopySet: fail to clone shares: clone(vs=<SVM>, vol=<Volume>, src=<Source>, dst=<Destination>) failed (Clone start failed: Clone operation failed to start: Disc quota exceeded.). ( Operation : CommitShadowCopySet , Client Shadow Copy Set ID : <ID Number> , Filer Shadow Copy Set ID : <ID Number>, Client Shadow Copy ID : - , Filer Shadow Copy ID : - , Share Name : -, Object type is: VSERVER with UUID: <ID> )