Recopying The Virtual Disk - Dell PowerVault MD3620f Command Line Interface Manual

NOTE:
Removing the drive letter of the associated virtual disk(s) in Windows or
unmounting the virtual drive in Linux helps to guarantee a stable copy of the drive
for the virtual disk copy.
Before creating a new virtual disk copy for an existing copy pair, both the
server and the associated virtual disk you are recopying have to be in the
proper state. To ensure that the host server is properly prepared to create a
virtual disk recopy, you can either use an application to carry out this task, or
you can perform the following steps:
1 Stop all I/O activity to the source and target virtual disk.
2 Using your Windows system, flush the cache to both the source and the
target virtual disk (if mounted). At the host prompt, type
SMrepassist -f <filename-identifier>
and press <Enter>. See "SMrepassist Utility" in the Owner's Manual for
more information.
3 Remove the drive letter(s) of the source and (if mounted) virtual disk in
Windows or unmount the virtual drive(s) in Linux to help guarantee a
stable copy of the drive for the virtual disk. If this is not done, the copy
operation reports that it has completed successfully, but the copied data is
not updated properly.
4 Follow any additional instructions for your operating system. Failure to
follow these additional instructions can create unusable virtual disk copies.
NOTE:
those instructions in your operating system documentation.
After your server has been prepared, see "Recopying the Virtual Disk" on
page 88 to recopy the virtual disk.

Recopying the Virtual Disk

After first preparing the host server(s) as specified in the preceding procedure,
use the following examples to make a virtual disk copy.
The following syntax is the general form of the command:
recopy virtualDiskCopy target [targetName] [source
[sourceName] copyPriority=(highest | high | medium
| low | lowest) targetReadOnlyEnabled=(TRUE |
FALSE)]
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Using the Virtual Disk Copy Feature
If your operating system requires additional instructions, you can find