PowerStore: Expired or Stale Snapshot Check

Summary: This article describes the PowerStore alert for Expired or Stale Snapshot Check.

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Symptoms

A health check detects this issue and raises an alert:

"Detected expired or stale snapshots."

 

error screen

 

Cause

Expired or Stale RPO snapshots impact available space and in some cases, may result in "Out of Space" situation. The alert is raised due to either one of the following cases:

 

  1. Expired snapshots: When there is at least 1 snapshot in the system, which has expiration date set to at least 24 hours before the current date and time.
  2. Stale RPO snapshots: When there are more than 10 RPO snapshots in the system, which were created at least 24 hours before the current date and time.

 

Resolution

This check does not support Auto-Repair. Deleting snapshots is a sensitive operation and requires explicit customer approval to mitigate the risk of removing important data.

Contact Technical Support to determine the best course of action. Mention this KB article ID to expedite processing.

Additional Information

See KB 000193518 PowerStore: Landing Page for RxDefinitions Issues for more information of the health check mechanism, the RxDefinitions package, and a complete list of RxDefinitions alerts.

Affected Products

PowerStore
Article Properties
Article Number: 000423296
Article Type: Solution
Last Modified: 23 Jul 2026
Version:  1
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