How to avoid Snapshot schedule conflicts

If the SnapVault feature is scheduled to perform Snapshot management at the same time as default snap sched activity, then the Snapshot management operations scheduled using the snap sched command might fail with syslog messages, “Skipping creation of hourly snapshot,” and “Snapshot already exists.”

To avoid this condition, disable the conflicting times using snap sched, and use the snapvault snap sched command to configure equivalent schedules to create Snapshot copies.

Note: As a best practice, disable the snap sched schedule and only use the snapvault snap sched command to create Snapshot copies. Therefore, to track the schedule for creating Snapshot copies, look at the snapvault snap sched output also, and not the snap sched output.

Parent topic: What SnapVault Snapshot copy update schedules are