Disabling automatic snapshots - FSx for ONTAP

Disabling automatic snapshots

Automatic snapshots are enabled by the default snapshot policy for volumes in your FSx for ONTAP file system. If you don't need snapshots of your data (for example, if you're using test data), you can disable snapshots by setting the volume's snapshot policy to none using the AWS Management Console, AWS CLI and API, and the ONTAP CLI, as described in the following procedures.

  1. Open the Amazon FSx console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/fsx/.

  2. Navigate to File systems and choose the ONTAP file system that you want to update a volume for.

  3. Choose the Volumes tab.

  4. Choose the volume that you want to update.

  5. For Actions, choose Update volume.

    The Update volume dialog box displays with the volume's current settings.

  6. For Snapshot policy, choose None.

  7. Choose Update to update the volume.

  • Use the update-volume AWS CLI command (or the equivalent UpdateVolume API command), to set the SnapshotPolicy to none, as shown in the following example.

    aws fsx update-volume \
    --volume-id fsvol-1234567890abcdefa \
    --name new_vol \
    --ontap-configuration CopyTagsToBackups=true,JunctionPath=/new_vol, \
           SizeInMegabytes=2048,SnapshotPolicy=none, \
           StorageEfficiencyEnabled=true, \
           TieringPolicy=all

Set the volume's snapshot policy to use the none default policy to turn off automatic snapshots.

  1. Use the volume snapshot policy show ONTAP CLI command to show the none policy.

    ::> snapshot policy show -policy none

Vserver: FsxIdabcdef01234567892
                         Number of Is
Policy Name              Schedules Enabled Comment
------------------------ --------- ------- ----------------------------------
none                             0 false   Policy for no automatic snapshots.
    Schedule               Count     Prefix                 SnapMirror Label
    ---------------------- -----     ---------------------- -------------------
    -                          -     -                      -

  2. Use the volume modify ONTAP ClI command to set the volume's snapshot policy to none to disable automatic snapshots. Replace the following placeholder values with your data:

    • svm_name — use your SVM's name.

    • vol_name — use your volume's name.

    When prompted to continue, enter y. 

    ::> volume modify -vserver svm_name -volume vol_name -snapshot-policy none

Warning: You are changing the Snapshot policy on volume "vol_name" to "none". Snapshot copies on this volume
         that do not match any of the prefixes of the new Snapshot policy will not be deleted. However, when
         the new Snapshot policy takes effect, depending on the new retention count, any existing Snapshot copies
         that continue to use the same prefixes might be deleted. See the 'volume modify' man page for more information. 
Do you want to continue? {y|n}: y
Volume modify successful on volume vol_name of Vserver svm_name.