Starting a FlashCopy consistency group–Restore

You can use the Starting FlashCopy® Consistency Group–Restore panel in the SAN Volume Controller Console to start a selected FlashCopy consistency group for restoring data.

This panel indicates that the selected FlashCopy consistency group has mappings where target virtual disks (VDisks) are also source VDisks in other active FlashCopy mappings. When the FlashCopy consistency group is being started with restore option, the start operation can fail if dependencies exist between the any of the FlashCopy mapping in the consistency group and other FlashCopy mappings on the cluster that have also been started with the restore option.

To determine if dependencies exist between the selected FlashCopy mappings and other mappings, use the Viewing FlashCopy Mappings panel to determine whether other FlashCopy mappings are linked to the selected mapping through shared source or target VDisks. If the restore option is set on any of these linked mappings, then you cannot start the selected FlashCopy mapping with the restore option.

This task assumes that you have already launched the SAN Volume Controller Console.

Complete the following steps to start a FlashCopy consistency group:

  1. Click Manage Copy Services > FlashCopy Consistency Groups in the portfolio. The Viewing FlashCopy Consistency Groups panel is displayed.
  2. Select the appropriate group's row from the table.
  3. Select Start a Consistency Group from the task list and click Go. If the selected FlashCopy consistency group contains has mappings where target VDisks are also source VDisks in other active FlashCopy mappings, then the Starting FlashCopy Consistency Groups–Restore panel displays.
  4. Click Continue for Restoring.
Parent topic: Starting FlashCopy consistency groups
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