Creating snapshot mirrors of volumes whose drive letters or mount points were reassigned
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Creating snapshot mirrors of volumes whose drive letters or mount points were reassigned

Use the Prepare command to prepare each of the volumes whose drive letter or mount point was reassigned prior to the restore process. Make sure to select disks or LUNs that are not used for production data. However, you may create more than one snapshot volume on the same disk or LUN as long as there is sufficient space available.

To create the snapshot mirrors using the VEA console

  1. Right-click the desired volume, select Snap > Snap Prepare.
  2. In the Prepare dialog box, do the following:

    • Choose Manually select disks.

    • Use the Add and Remove buttons to move the desired disks to the Selected disks box.

    • Click OK.

  3. Repeat the procedure to create a snapshot mirror for each volume whose drive letter or mount point was reassigned prior to the restore process.

    Make sure that the lower pane of the VEA console shows that the resynchronization process is complete before continuing with the vxsnap create command.

To create snapshot mirrors from the command line

  1. Type the command as in the following example, which prepares volume G: and selects harddisk3 for the split-mirror snapshot volume:
    vxassist prepare G: Harddisk3
  2. Repeat step 1 to create snapshot mirrors of each volume associated whose drive letter or mount point was reassigned prior to the restore process.

    Make sure that the lower pane of the VEA console shows that the resynchronization process is complete before continuing with the vxsnap create command.

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