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4.3

Changing Remote Copy Mode for a Volume Group

InForm OS Version 2.3.1

Remote Copy User’s Guide

4.3 Changing Remote Copy Mode for a Volume Group

Use the

setrcopygroup mode

command to change the Remote Copy mode of a volume

group. This allows you to convert a synchronous volume group to an asynchronous periodic

volume group or vice versa.

Follow these steps to change the Remote Copy mode for an existing volume group.

1

Stop the primary group, leaving the resynchronization snapshots on the system.

2

Change the Remote Copy mode of the volume group as follows:

is the new Remote Copy mode (

sync

or

periodic

).

is the name of the target name for the volume group.

is the name of the Remote Copy volume group.

3

Start the primary volume group as follows:

4

If converting a synchronous volume group to an asynchronous periodic volume group, set

the synchronization period using the following command:

where

is the new resynchronization period followed by

s

to denote seconds,

m

to

denote minutes,

h

to denote hours, or

d

to denote days.

NOTE: Only one mode (synchronous or asynchronous periodic) per target is

allowed.

# stoprcopygroup

# setrcopygroup mode

# startrcopygroup

# setrcopygroup period