Deleting a mirror

When you delete a mirror, all of the pairs in the mirror are deleted, and data copying from the master journal to the restore journal stops. Specify one of the following deletion modes when deleting a mirror:

• Normal: The mirror is deleted only when the primary system can change the mirror status to Initial.

• Force: The mirror is forcibly deleted even when the primary system cannot communicate with the secondary system.

If the mirror status does not change to Initial after 5 or more minutes from when you start an operation to delete a mirror in Force mode, restart the delete operation in Force mode to ensure all pairs in the mirror are deleted.

After each delete operation in Force mode, wait at least five minutes before you create pairs in the same journal. Otherwise the paircreate operation might fail.