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NOTE: Refer to the PowerVault Modular Disk Storage Manager online help topics for more information on troubleshooting, and recovering from failures.

SMrepassist Utility

SMrepassist (replication assistance) is a host-based utility for Windows platforms. This utility is installed with MDSM. Use this utility before and after you create a virtual disk copy on a Windows operating system to ensure that all the memory-resident data for file systems on the target virtual disk is flushed and that the driver recognizes signatures and file system partitions. You can also use this utility to resolve duplicate signature problems for snapshot virtual disks.

From a command prompt window on a host running Windows, navigate to

C:\Program Files\Dell\MD Storage Manager\util and run the following command:

SMrepassist -f <filesystem-identifier>

where -f flushes all the memory-resident data for the file system indicated by <filesystem-identifier>, and <filesystem-identifier> specifies a unique file system in the following syntax:

drive-letter: <mount-point-path>

The file system identifier might consist of only a drive letter, as in the following example:

SMrepassist -f E:

NOTE: In Windows, the mount point path is a drive letter.

An error message appears in the command line when the utility cannot distinguish between the following:

•Source virtual disk and snapshot virtual disk (for example, if the snapshot virtual disk has been removed).

•Standard virtual disk and virtual disk copy (for example, if the virtual disk copy has been removed).

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