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Change the volume inactive data compression threshold in ONTAP

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You can change how frequently ONTAP performs a cold data scan by modifying the coldness threshold on volumes using temperature-sensitive storage efficiency.

Before you begin

You must be a cluster or SVM administrator and use the ONTAP CLI advanced privilege level.

About this task

The coldness threshold can be from 1 to 60 days. The default threshold is 14 days.

Steps

  1. Set the privilege level:

    set -privilege advanced

  2. Modify inactive data compression on a volume:

    volume efficiency inactive-data-compression modify -vserver <vserver_name> -volume <volume_name> -threshold-days <integer>

Learn more about modifying inactive data compression in the ONTAP command reference.