#Hey Everyone, Question for you while I wait on hold for support.

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placid nexus
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Is it safe to delete snapmirror copes from the source volume of a flexclone while the flexclone is still serving data? I have reached my snapmirror copy maximum copies threshold on the source volume

spiral isle
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you cannot delete the base snapshot that the clone was created from (it shows as "busy" and all attempts to delete it will fail) but yes, it is safe to delete other snapshots from the parent volume

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a quick test would have shown you that as well:

cl1::> volume create test1 -size 10g -aggregate n1_aggrSAS
[Job 176832] Job succeeded: Successful
cl1::> snapshot create test1 snap1
cl1::> snapshot create test1 snap2
cl1::> snapshot create test1 snap3
cl1::> volume clone create -parent-volume test1 -parent-snapshot snap2 -flexclone testclone
[Job 176834] Job succeeded: Successful

cl1::> snapshot show -volume test* -fields busy
vserver volume    snapshot busy
------- --------- -------- -----
SVM     test1     snap1    false
SVM     test1     snap2    true
SVM     test1     snap3    false
SVM     testclone snap2    false
4 entries were displayed.

cl1::> snapshot delete test1 snap2

Warning: Deleting a Snapshot copy permanently removes data that is stored only in that Snapshot copy. Are you sure you want to
         delete Snapshot copy "snap2" for volume "test1" in Vserver "SVM" ? {y|n}: y

Error: command failed: Snapshot copy "snap2" of volume "test1" in Vserver "SVM" has not expired or is locked. Use the "snapshot
       show -fields owners, expiry-time, snaplock-expiry-time" command to view the expiry and lock status of the Snapshot copy.

cl1::> snapshot delete test1 snap3

Warning: Deleting a Snapshot copy permanently removes data that is stored only in that Snapshot copy. Are you sure you want to
         delete Snapshot copy "snap3" for volume "test1" in Vserver "SVM" ? {y|n}: y

cl1::> snapshot delete test1 snap1

Warning: Deleting a Snapshot copy permanently removes data that is stored only in that Snapshot copy. Are you sure you want to
         delete Snapshot copy "snap1" for volume "test1" in Vserver "SVM" ? {y|n}: y
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(the error message is slightly misleading but still it doesn't let you accidentally delete the wrong snapshot)

placid nexus
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Thank you for this. This is what I figured.