Performing a failover recovery operation

A failover to the Global Copy secondary volume turns the secondary volumes into primary volumes and suspends these volumes immediately. When you run a Global Copy failover, the B volumes are the primary volumes and the A volumes are the secondary volumes. This action just changes the Global Copy state of the secondary volumes from Target Copy Pending to Suspended. The failoverpprc command changes a secondary device into a primary suspended device while leaving the primary device in its current state. This command succeeds even if the paths are down and the volume at the production site is unavailable or nonexistent.

Perform the following step to perform a failover recovery operation. The example commands in this task are shown in two formats. The first format shows the type of information that the command requires. The second format provides the command with declared values for the variables.