Taking Mirror Snapshots; Listing Mirror Snapshots - IBM TotalStorage NAS Gateway 500 Administrator's Manual

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CLI command
From the command line, enter geonasviewlog logname, where logname is the type
of log to be displayed. Valid values are:
v nasxd – contains the actions that have occurred on a mirrored device, including
v krpc_log – contains statistical data regarding remote clustering operations, such
v gmd_log – contains statistical data regarding the remote mirrored devices, such
SMIT fastpath
The SMIT fastpath command to view a mirror log is smit geonasviewlog.
WebSM
To view a mirror log from the main WebSM panel, navigate to: NAS
Management→NAS System→Remote Mirroring→Overview and Tasks→View
Remote Mirroring logs.

Taking mirror snapshots

Mirror snapshots are backups of configuration information for all the mirrored
devices. Taking a snapshot is used to save the configuration information for the
remotely mirrored volumes that are currently configured. This configuration
information can be easily restored by following the procedure "Restoring mirrors
from a snapshot" on page 178.
You can create a snapshot of the Remotely Mirrored volumes.
CLI command
From the command line, enter geo_snapshot -t –f <snapshot_file>.
SMIT fastpath
The SMIT fastpath command to create a snapshot of the mirrors is smit
geo_snapshot.
WebSM
To create a snapshot of the mirrors from the main WebSM panel, navigate to: NAS
Management→NAS System→Remote Mirroring→Overview and Tasks→Create a
snapshot of all remote mirroring devices.

Listing mirror snapshots

You can list the backups of configuration information for all the remotely mirrored
volumes.
CLI command
From the command line, enter geo_snapshot -l.
SMIT fastpath
The SMIT fastpath command to list the mirror snapshots is smit geo_snapshot.
WebSM
To list mirror snapshots from the main WebSM panel, navigate to: NAS
Management→NAS System→Remote Mirroring→Overview and Tasks→List
Snapshots of Remote Mirror Devices.
the steps required to make, change, remove, start, or stop a mirrored volume
as network information
as bytes read or written for the local and remote sites
Chapter 29. Managing NAS volumes, Remote Mirrored systems, and snapshots
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