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HP 3PAR Remote Copy Software User Manual

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3.22

Setting Up Remote Copy

Remote Copy User’s Guide

InForm OS Version 2.3.1

The

creatercopygroup

command creates a volume group on the primary storage server

(InServ1). At the same time, it also creates a corresponding secondary group

(Group1.r112) on the target system (InServ2). The corresponding secondary group uses

the naming convention

.r

.

2

(Optional). If you chose

periodic

mode in

step 1

, you might want to set up automatic

synchronization by specifying a resynchronization period as follows. Do not set a

resynchronization period if you plan to perform the initial synchronization using a tape

backup, as described on

page 3.38

.

is the resynchronization period, followed by

s

to denote seconds,

m

to

denote minutes,

h

to denote hours, or

d

to denote days.

is the target name (InServ2).

is the name of the primary volume group (Group1).

NOTE: For N-to-1 configurations, only asynchronous periodic mode volume

groups are supported.

NOTE: When issuing commands that are mirrored from one system to another,

there is a five minute timeout limit. After five minutes, if the other system does

not respond to a command, the following error message appears:

target system could not be contacted

NOTE: You can create groups and add volumes to groups without disrupting host

access to volumes. In addition, stopping a Remote Copy volume group does not

prevent a host from accessing the volumes in that group.

On InServ1:

# setrcopygroup period