Title: | HSZ40 Product Conference |
Moderator: | SSDEVO::EDMONDS |
Created: | Mon Apr 11 1994 |
Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
Number of topics: | 902 |
Total number of notes: | 3319 |
Customer has several HSZ based mirror sets in his SW box. He wants to break the mirror permanately, but NOT destroy the data on the surviving disk. Can this be done? He does not have enough disks to create another raid set to copy it to. Also, since the disks are in use, we need to "present" the same disk number to the OS (UNIX V4.0b). Therefore, can we break the mirror set and retain the data? If so, how?? Thanks, /jim
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864.1 | unmirror what you are looking for? | SSDEVO::RMCLEAN | Tue May 06 1997 09:34 | 1 | |
Try the unmirror command... | |||||
864.2 | You may need REDUCE too - see the manual | PEAKS::BEAN | Wing nut. | Wed May 07 1997 09:42 | 14 |
I can't quite tell from your description of the customer's problem, but the REDUCE command might also be needed. UNMIRROR requires the mirrorset to already be down to one member. REDUCE is how you remove members from mirrorsets. There is a discussion in Section 6 of the HSZ User's Guide on how to manipulate mirrorsets that should help your understanding. In particular, note the section on "Using Mirrorsets To Obtain Snapshot Copies of Data". Your description of the need to "break a mirrorset" sounds like the procedure described there. Bob |