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Stopping replication to a Secondary

The vradmin stoprep command can be used to stop replication to a Secondary in an RDS. The vradmin stoprep command can be entered from any host in the RDS.

The vradmin stoprep command fails if the Primary and Secondary RLINKs are not up-to-date. Use the -f option to stop replication to a Secondary even when the RLINKs are not up-to-date.

Before stopping replication, the vradmin stoprep command displays a warning and prompts the user to confirm whether or not to stop replication. To skip this confirmation, use the -s option with the vradmin stoprep command. The -s option to the vradmin stoprep command proves useful in scripts.

To stop replication to a specific Secondary in an RDS, specify the Secondary host name. For an RDS with a single Secondary, you do not have to specify the Secondary host name.

 To stop replication to a specific Secondary in an RDS

# vradmin -g diskgroup stoprep local_rvgname sec_hostname

The argument local_rvgname is the name of the RVG on the local host and represents its RDS.

The argument sec_hostname is the name of the Secondary host as displayed in the output of the vradmin printrvg command.

Example:

To stop replication from the Primary RVG hr_rvg on seattle to the Secondary RVG on host london, type:

# vradmin -g hrdg stoprep hr_rvg london