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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The old syntax works unless have a colon in your snapshot names. In that case, the portion before the first colon will be interpreted as a fileset name. So
if you use RFC 3339/ISO 8601 date/times, that’s a problem:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The syntax for creating and deleting snapshots goes from this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">mm{cr|del}snapshot fs100 SNAP@2016-07-31T13:00:07Z –j 1000466<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">to this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">mm{cr|del}snapshot fs100 1000466:SNAP@2016-07-31T13:00:07Z<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">If you are dealing with filesystem level snapshots then you just need a leading colon:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">mm{cr|del}snapshot fs100 :SNAP@2016-07-31T13:00:07Z<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thx<br>
Paul<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org [mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Marc A Kaplan<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, September 16, 2016 10:22 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> gpfsug main discussion list<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [gpfsug-discuss] Bit of a rant about snapshot command syntax changes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I think at least the most popular old forms still work, even if the documentation and usage messages were scrubbed.<br>
So generally, for example, neither your scripts nor your fingers will break. ;-)</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F">From: </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"Sobey, Richard A" <<a href="mailto:r.sobey@imperial.ac.uk">r.sobey@imperial.ac.uk</a>></span><br>
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F">To: </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">"'gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org'" <<a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org">gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org</a>></span><br>
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F">Date: </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">09/16/2016 07:02 AM</span><br>
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F">Subject: </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[gpfsug-discuss] Bit of a rant about snapshot command syntax changes</span><br>
<span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#5F5F5F">Sent by: </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org">gpfsug-discuss-bounces@spectrumscale.org</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Why was mmdelsnapshot (and possibly other snapshot related commands) changed from:</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Mmdelsnapshot device snapshotname –j filesetname</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">TO</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Mmdelsnapshot device filesetname:snapshotname</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">..between 4.2.0 and 4.2.1?</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">It’s mildly irritating to say the least!</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span><br>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Richard</span><br>
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