CAUTION: Before you create a new copy of a source virtual disk, stop any data access (I/O) activity or suspend data transfer to the source virtual disk and (if applicable, the target disk) to ensure that you capture an accurate point-in-time image of the source virtual disk. Close all applications, including Windows Internet Explorer, to make sure all I/O activity has stopped.

NOTE: Removing the drive letter of the associated virtual disk(s) in Windows or unmounting the virtual drive in Linux helps to guarantee a stable copy of the drive for the virtual copy.

Syntax

recopy virtualDiskCopy target [targetName] [source [sourceName]]

[copyPriority=(highest high medium low lowest) targetReadOnlyEnabled=(TRUE FALSE)] copyType=(online offline)

Parameters

Parameter

Description

 

 

target

Name of the target virtual disk for which to

 

reinitiate a virtual disk copy operation. You must

 

put brackets ([ ]) around the target virtual disk

 

name. If the target virtual disk name has special

 

characters, you must also put quotation marks (" ")

 

around the target virtual disk name.

source

Name of the source virtual disk for which to

 

reinitiate a virtual disk copy operation. You must

 

put brackets ([ ]) around the source virtual disk

 

name. If the source virtual disk name has special

 

characters, you must also put quotation marks (" ")

 

around the source virtual disk name.

copyPriority

Specifies the priority that the virtual disk copy has

 

relative to host I/O activity. Valid entries are

 

highest, high, medium, low, or lowest.

 

NOTE: CopyPriority defines the amount of

 

system resources used to copy the data

 

between the source and target virtual disks of

 

a virtual disk copy pair. If you select the

 

highest priority level, the virtual disk copy uses

 

the most system resources to perform virtual

 

disk copy, which decreases performance for

 

host data transfers.

targetReadOnlyEnabled

Specifies whether the target virtual disk is write

 

enabled or read only. To be able to write to the

 

target virtual disk, set this parameter to FALSE. To

 

prevent writing to the target virtual disk, set this

 

parameter to TRUE.

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