AlexDawson and aborzenkov,
Thank you for your replies! That answers my question. It's pretty unfortunate that something that was previously so easy (i.e. snapmirror the volume to retain contents) is no longer doable. i can easily add the DQP and firmware files back but what a pain to have to do it!
Alex I did have one follow up question. You said:
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Configuration of storage virtual machines are stored in volumes on the root aggregate (not root volumes), so they are not impacted by this.
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The root aggregate only contains the root volume, right? So I'm not following what you mean by volumes on the root aggregate. Are you referring to SVM root volumes?