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How to break the Snapmirror realtionship in Protection Manager

asurendr
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Hi, could someone tell me the process of breaking of breaking the snapmiror relationship. I can do it in cli but the volumes are in dataset and the policies are running on them.

Is there a process??

Thanks!

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arunchak
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you can do it through cli, shouldn't be a problem. The dataset goes into non-conformant state (ofcourse the subsequent backup jobs fail if dataset is non-conformant). On syncing the relationship back again it becomes conformant. BTW what is the reason you want to break the snapmirror?

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HENRYPAN2
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Hi asurendr,

You may wish to Quiesce the snap mirror before break it.

Good luck

Henry

asurendr
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ok but how about the policy on those datasets? I read about this dfpm relinquish command but what do afterI use the relinquish command.

arunchak
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The relinquish command is used to mark the relationship as external which could be imported to the dataset on a later point of time, if required.

[root@shoemaker-rhel6x64-01 ~]# dfpm dataset relinquish help

NAME

    relinquish -- mark a relationship as external

SYNOPSIS

    dfpm dataset relinquish { [ <destination-volume-name-or-id> ] |

        [ <destination-qtree-name-or-id> ] }

DESCRIPTION

    The relationship will be marked as external. Source and

    destination objects are left unchanged.

asurendr
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Thanks on your reply!!

So after i use this relinquish command and once these two volumes become external, and the mirrored vol become read/write...?? I can then mount this volume to the server right??

arunchak
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you can do it through cli, shouldn't be a problem. The dataset goes into non-conformant state (ofcourse the subsequent backup jobs fail if dataset is non-conformant). On syncing the relationship back again it becomes conformant. BTW what is the reason you want to break the snapmirror?

asurendr
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I need to show the customer here the process of doing a DR. And also recovery of the archived files

arunchak
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okay. If you do a snapmirror break the destination becomes writable (you can start using it). Once you get back the primary site you can sync the mirror relationship back.

asurendr
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And how about the Vaulted part whose primary is the mirrored volume. Nothing affects this..??

arunchak
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yes AFAIK, it shouldn't affect the backup part. backup part just transfers whatever is present in the "mirrored volume" in your case.

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