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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide
  3. Appendix A. Managing nbu_snap (Solaris)
  4. About managing nbu_snap
  5. nbu_snap commands
  6. snapoff command
Veritas NetBackup™ Snapshot Client Administrator's Guide

snapoff command

snapoff terminates an nbu_snap snapshot.

Execute this command as root:

   /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/driver/snapoff snap1 ... snapn

where snapx is the numeric id of each copy-on-write process to be terminated. (Use snaplist to display the id of active snapshots.)

If snapoff is successful, a message of the following form is displayed:

snapshot 1 disabled
snapshot 2 disabled
...
snapshot n disabled

If snapoff fails, an explanatory message is displayed. Error codes are identified in /usr/include/sys/errno.h.

Warning:

Do not terminate a snapshot while the backup is active: corruption of the backup image may result.

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