topic Protection Manager: How to delete Snapmirror/Vault Secondary Volumes/Qtr. once Protection Policy ist removed direct from dfpm ? in Active IQ Unified Manager Discussions

Protection Manager: How to delete Snapmirror/Vault Secondary Volumes/Qtr. once Protection Policy ist removed direct from dfpm ?

hondasuschi — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:20:01 GMT

Problem is with DPM, once created a Protection Policy (doesn't matter which one vault/mirror) if you want to whip out secondary vols/trees you need to select "no Protection Policy" and later to clean up Manually all Snapmirror relation-Ships ev. Deleting snapmirror.conf (destination) and so on. At least I don’t know another way. Especially while testing huge work. Why there is not a command like >dfpm relationship delete which removes secondary trees/vols ? Does anybody has any idea how to wipe out undesired old snap vault/mirrors- targets without to use ontapp systems direct from dfpm ? Thank for help

Re: Protection Manager: How to delete Snapmirror/Vault Secondary Volumes/Qtr. once Protection Policy ist removed direct from dfpm ?

adaikkap — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 05:51:07 GMT

Hi Juerg,

When delete the dataset, automatically the secondary volume are deleted. Or if you remove a secondary volume or qtree from a dataset after 2 hour ( thats when the reaper kicks in) it gets deleted.

Pls find attached a detailed doc on how relationships are deleted.

Re: Protection Manager: How to delete Snapmirror/Vault Secondary Volumes/Qtr. once Protection Policy ist removed direct from dfpm ?

hondasuschi — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 07:34:21 GMT

Many Thanks, very qualified answer! Perfect working now with dpReaperInterval=1minute and Orphaned.

But was quite surprised when I used dpdpReaperInterval=1minute with "automatic" old mirrors retations-ships where not deleted. Only after changing back to Orphan, may I overlooked time settings an needed to wait more time.

Did I understand right, secondary volumes which are not part anymore of Datasets, however never deleted ?

Other remarques: Why Volumes once in Datasets are not 100% cleanuped, means they stay internelly in Sybase DB

when you delete Datasets and all Volumes. Why we need to clean up manually with

dfm volume delete -f {ID of volume} z.B dfm volume delete -f all

I mean, if Operator is realing delting resources then sould be wipped out and not if you recreate that volumes are created with volume_1...volume_2.. etc.

May would be good to change that in code thate delete is really delete.

But many thanks