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Dell Unity™ Family Unisphere® Command Line Interface User Guide

Delete snapshots

Delete (destroy) a snapshot of a storage resource.

NOTE:Once you delete a snapshot, you can no longer recover data from it or restore a storage resource to it.

Format

/prot/snap {-id <value> | -name <value>} delete [-async] [-overrideLock] [-force]

Object qualifier

QualifierDescription
-idType the ID of the snapshot to delete.
-nameType the name of the snapshot.

Action qualifiers

QualifierDescription
-asyncRun the operation in asynchronous mode.
-overrideLockOverride the restriction preventing the deletion of a snapshot that is locked by an application. Attempting to delete a locked snapshot without this option specified will return an error message containing the details of the application that has the snapshot locked.
NOTE:Do not use this option if applications are currently referencing the snap, to avoid a performance impact on these applications. This option will not bypass all restrictions, only the lock that certain applications may have on the snapshot.
-force Unconditionally removes the snapshot on the destination site, even if it is marked as replicated by the synchronous replication session.
NOTE:This option is applicable for synchronous destination site snapshots only.

Example

The following command deletes snapshot SNAP_1:

uemcli -d 10.0.0.1 -u Local/joe -p MyPassword456! /prot/snap –id SNAP_1 delete
Storage system address: 10.0.0.1
Storage system port: 443
HTTPS connection

Operation completed successfully.

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