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PowerScale OneFS 9.2.1.0 CLI Administration Guide

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Delete a snapshot

You can delete a snapshot if you no longer want to access the data contained in the snapshot.

OneFS frees disk space occupied by deleted snapshots when the SnapshotDelete job is run. Also, if you delete a snapshot that contains clones or cloned files, data in a shadow store might no longer be referenced by files on the cluster; OneFS deletes unreferenced data in a shadow store when the ShadowStoreDelete job is run. OneFS routinely runs both the shadow store delete and SnapshotDelete jobs. However, you can also manually run the jobs at any time.

  1. Delete a snapshot by running the isi snapshot snapshots delete command.
    The following command deletes a snapshot named OldSnapshot:
    isi snapshot snapshots delete OldSnapshot
  2. Optional: To increase the speed at which deleted snapshot data is freed on the cluster, start the SnapshotDelete job by running the following command:
    isi job jobs start snapshotdelete
  3. To increase the speed at which deleted data shared between deduplicated and cloned files is freed on the cluster, start the ShadowStoreDelete job by running the following command:
    isi job jobs start shadowstoredelete

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