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Quick Recovery: Synchronous Long Distance Configurations

Table 14 Quick Recovery Steps for Synchronous Long Distance Configurations

Backup System

Failed/Recovered System

Failover System

Step

setrcopygroup

failover -f -t

1.

Change secondary
volume groups to
primary.

(of failed system)

OR (no data transfer):

setrcopygroup

failover -f -t

-discard

(possible data loss)

Verify that failover tasks
complete successfully.

2.

Verify group reversal.

showrcopy

showrcopy

3.

Back up data.

Recover the failed system.

4.

Prepare to resume normal
operation.

Stop I/O to the reversed
volume groups.

5.

Stop writes.

setrcopygroup

recover -f -t

6.

Reverse the natural
direction of data flow
and synchronize the
systems.

(of recovered system)

showrcopy

showrcopy

showrcopy

7.

Verify synchronization.

showrcopy groups

8.

Verify volume groups are
started.

(Do not continue until
groups are started and
synced.)

(of volume group that should
be started)

setrcopygroup

restore -f -t

9.

Restore the natural
direction of data flow.

(of recovered system)

showrcopy

showrcopy

showrcopy

10.

Verify natural data flow
restored.

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