topic Re: Delete Nimble snapshot after cloning in Array Setup and Networking

Delete Nimble snapshot after cloning

kkendall — Thu, 13 Feb 2020 23:06:13 GMT

Nimble HF-40 ... vers 5.0.7.300-644174-opt

I have created a shapshot of a volume

From the snapshot, I created a clone. Now that I have the cloned volume online, I don't need the snapshot, but if I try to delete it, I get the error that it has a clone.

Is there a way to break the relationship so the shapshots can be removed?

Re: Delete Nimble snapshot after cloning

kkendall — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:16:46 GMT

From what I have been able to determine .... if you use a snapshot to clone a new volume(s) ... you are married to that snapshot until the cloned volumes have been deleted.

I can't find a way to clone an existing volume so it is a standalone volume.

Re: Delete Nimble snapshot after cloning

Nick_Dyer — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 19:58:02 GMT

Hello!

Fracturing or deleting the parent snapshot or volume from the clone is a feature long requested in Nimble. Good news is that within the coming months we're roadmapping this feature to be available - most likely as part of NimbleOS 5.3 or 5.4.

For now, if you take a clone of a snapshot, that snapshot needs to live as the blocks are shared between them.

Re: Delete Nimble snapshot after cloning

Sheldon Smith — Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:53:35 GMT

Of course, as the blocks are shared, I don't see a real problem with the clone being tied to the snapshot. (Nick, am I missing something here?)

Unlike some other storage where a volume is copied to a second complete instance of the storage.

Re: Delete Nimble snapshot after cloning

JakeStateFarm — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 19:57:46 GMT

I know I am bumping an old thread, But did this feature make it into version 6?

Thanks

Re: Delete Nimble snapshot after cloning

Sunitha_Mod — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:32:54 GMT

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