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PowerScale OneFS 9.5.0.0 CLI Administration Guide

Delete a snapshot

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

Run the SnapshotDelete job to free disk space that deleted snapshots occupy. Deleting a snapshot that contains clones or cloned files can result in files on the cluster becoming unable to reference data contained in a shadow store. OneFS deletes unreferenced data in a shadow store when the ShadowStoreDelete job runs. OneFS routinely runs both the shadow store delete and SnapshotDelete jobs. 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 that is named OldSnapshot:
    isi snapshot snapshots delete OldSnapshot
  2. Optional: Run the SnapshotDelete job to increase the speed at which deleted snapshot data is freed on the cluster. Run the following command to start the SnapshotDelete job:
    isi job jobs start snapshotdelete
  3. Run the ShadowStoreDelete job to increase the speed at which deleted data that is shared between deduplicated and cloned files is freed on the cluster. Run the following command to start the ShadowStoreDelete job:
    isi job jobs start shadowstoredelete

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