Quotas are always disabled on a SnapMirror volume destination, regardless of whether quotas are enabled on the source volume. If you try to enable quotas on a volume destination, SnapMirror displays an error message. Quotas are not disabled on SnapMirror destination qtrees.
If the source volume or qtree and the destination reside on different
storage systems, and you want the same quota restrictions to be applied after you make the destination writable, the destination system must have an
/etc/quotas file that includes all the entries from the
/etc/quotas file used by the source system.
- If you use SnapMirror replication for data migration, you can copy the /etc/quotas entries from the source system to the /etc/quotas file of the destination system before you use the snapmirror break command to make the destination writable.
- If you use SnapMirror replication for backup and potential disaster recovery, you must keep a copy on the destination system of all /etc/quotas entries used by the source system at all times. That way, you can apply the quota entries to the destination volume or qtree if the source system becomes unavailable.