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volume efficiency prepare-to-downgrade

Identify any incompatable volumes or Snapshot copies before downgrade

Availability: This command is available to cluster and Vserver administrators at the advanced privilege level.

Description​

The volume efficiency prepare-to-downgrade command updates efficiency configurations and metadata to be compatible with prior releases as specified. This command also disables the use of incompatible efficiency features. This command is not supported on FlexGroups.

Parameters​

[-disable-feature-set <downgrade version>] - Data ONTAP Version
This parameter specifies the ONTAP version that introduced new volume efficiency feature set.

Examples​

The following example disables the features introduced in ONTAP 9.6.0. 

    cluster1::*> volume efficiency prepare-to-downgrade -disable-feature-set 9.6.0

The following example ignores offline volumes while disabling the features introduced in ONTAP 9.6.0 .
    cluster1::*> volume efficiency prepare-to-downgrade -disable-feature-set 9.6.0 -skip-offline-volumes true