#quick resync

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forest narwhal
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Is there any method using ansible to perform a quick resync of a snapmirror?

forest narwhal
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This is an old question that I asked however it still poses the same issue. Here is some more detail about what I am looking to do

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What people are doing for DR testing wtih XDP snapmirrors for large volumes with large number of files? We have a lot of volumes that are say 60-70T and contain hundreds of millions of files so when we 'resync' they will be in preparing state for a very long time, but we need to do a failback maybe 6-12 hours later so that 'resync' will never complete.
We used to use cascaded snapmirrors and used powershell to perform our failover and failback, but we removed one copy and decided that we wanted to use ansible for the failover and failback. Ansible doesn't seem to have any way to perform the 'quick-resync' like you can in the CLI , even in powershell you have to create the snap and then do a resync, you cannot create a resync with -quickresync but thats not a big deal. The real issue is that it doens't exist in ansible.
I am open to moving back to powershell but we were pushing towards ansible so that we don't have to provide as much permission on the netapp to users that don't need it.

mental wolf
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@forest narwhal FYI, There is a story open for 'quick-resync' feature addition to snapmirror module, will be working.

forest narwhal
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Any idea the ETA for that? I also have a similar question for flexgroups since in many cases we are using flexgroups with a similar issue

mental wolf
forest narwhal
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I guess what I am asking is are we talking in 2025 or later? That might change what we do to modify our existing automation. And will it work for flexgroups as well?

mental wolf
# forest narwhal I guess what I am asking is are we talking in 2025 or later? That might change ...

We will be working on the quick-resync feature addition to na_ontap_snapmirror module as soon as possible, it will be released for use in 2025.
Regarding FlexGroup support, as per the documentation, the quick_resync option is only applicable to FlexVol and SVMDR relationships. FlexGroup is not mentioned, so it's not currently supported.
If you find any documentation that indicates support for FlexGroups, please share it here that will be really helpful.

forest narwhal
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I don't have any but without that its not as helpful. Ultimately from an end user perspective the na_ontap_snapmirror should apply to all snapmirrors but since flexgroup snapmirrors are technically 1 snapmirror for each constituent some things don't work for them. if I choose quick-resync it should just apply that to each constituent rather than just not work

trim dust
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I guess that would be something that would have to be changed in ONTAP though?