Dell MD3200i, MD3220i Recopying the Virtual Disk

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5 Follow any additional instructions for your operating system. Failure to
follow these additional instructions can create unusable virtual disk copies.
NOTE: If your operating system requires additional instructions, you can find
those instructions in your operating system documentation.
Recopying the Virtual Disk
You can use the Copy Manager to create a new virtual disk copy for a selected
source virtual disk and a target virtual disk. Use this option when you have
stopped a virtual disk copy and want to start it again or when a virtual disk
copy has failed or completed. The virtual disk copy starts over from the
beginning.
• Possible loss of data—The re-copying operation overwrites existing data on
the target virtual disk.
• Possible loss of data access—While a virtual disk copy has a status of In
Progress or Pending, source virtual disks are available for read I/O activity
only. Write requests are allowed after the virtual disk copy has completed.
Keep these guidelines in mind when re-copying a virtual disk:
• If hosts are mapped to the source virtual disk, the data that is copied to the
target virtual disk when you perform the re-copy operation might have
changed since the previous virtual disk copy was created.
• Select only one virtual disk copy in the Copy Manager dialog.
To recopy the virtual disk:
1
Stop all I/O to the source virtual disk and the target virtual disk.
2 Unmount any file systems on the source virtual disk and the target virtual
disk.
3 In the AMW, select Virtual Disk  Copy  Copy Manager .
The
Copy Manager window is displayed.
4 Select the copy pair in the table.
5 Select Copy  Re-Copy .
The
Re-Copy window is displayed.
6 Set the copy priority.
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