Viewing the common snapshot

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Viewing the common snapshot - FSx for ONTAP

The common snapshot is used to maintain incrementality between your backups. This procedure explains how to identity the common snapshot on your volume.

To view a volume's common snapshot

To determine which snapshot is a volume's common snapshot, use the volume snapshot show ONTAP CLI command.


volume snapshot show -volume volume-name

In the output, the name of the common snapshot has the format of backup-id, where id is a 17 digit alphanumeric string, as shown in the following example:


FsxIdabc12345::> volume snapshot show -volume test_vol
                                 ---Blocks---
Vserver Volume    Snapshot                    Size     Total% Used%
-------- -------- --------------------------- -------- ------ -----
dest-svm test_vol 
                  snap1                        144KB    0%     3%
                  snap2                        832KB    0%    16%
         --->     backup-abcdef0123456789a    4.87MB    0%    53% <---
                  weekly.2024-05-26_0015      5.02MB    0%    54%
                  weekly.2024-06-02_0015      2.22MB    0%    34%
                  daily.2024-06-04_0010        284KB    0%     6%
                  daily.2024-06-05_0010       4.29MB    0%    50%
                  hourly.2024-06-05_0705       168KB    0%     4%
8 entries were displayed.

Important

Do not delete the common snapshot on the volume because it is used to maintain incrementality between your backups. Deleting a volume's common snapshot will cause the next backup to be a full backup of the volume instead of an incremental backup.