The revertflash command
is used as part of the recovery from a disaster scenario to rollback a Global
Mirror consistency group that is in the process of forming. The former Global
Mirror consistency group is restored.

>>-revertflash--+-------------------------+--------------------->
'- -dev--storage_image_ID-'
>--+------------------------------+----------------------------->
'- -seqnum--flash_sequence_num-'
>--+-SourceVolume_ID--+-------+-+------------------------------><
| '-. . .-' |
'-" - "----------------------'
Parameters
- -dev storage_image_ID
- (Optional) Specifies the storage image ID, which includes manufacturer,
machine type, and serial number. This parameter is required if you do not
specify a fully qualified ID for the source volume and you do not specify
a value for the devid variable in your profile
file.
- Example: IBM.1750-685FA120
- -seqnum flash_sequence_num
- (Optional) Specifies the FlashCopy sequence number. When this number is
specified, the revertflash operation is performed only on those relations
associated with the specified number.
- This parameter is not supported for machine type 2105.
- Example: 0010
- SourceVolumeID . . . | -
- (Required) Specifies the source volume ID for which the FlashCopy relationship
is to be reverted. The chosen FlashCopy pair is the one established or modified
with the -record parameter. This parameter accepts fully qualified
volume IDs, which includes storage image IDs, or a shortened version without
storage image IDs if the -dev parameter is specified or you specify
a value for the devid variable in your profile
file. You must separate multiple source volume IDs with spaces.
- The volume ID is a 32-bit number that can be represented as 4 hexadecimal
digits in the form of XYZZ where X is the address group (0 -
1), XY together is the logical subsystem number 00
- 1E (for 1750) , and ZZ is
the volume number (00 - FF).
- If you specify the dash (-), this parameter information is automatically
supplied.
- Example of a fully qualified volume ID: IBM.1750-68FA120/0001
- Example of a shortened version: 0001
- Example of multiple IDs: 0001 0003 0008
Example (1750)
Invoking
the revertflash commanddscli>revertflash -dev
IBM.1750-68FA120 0100
The
resulting outputDate/Time: Sun Aug 11 02:23:49 PST 2004 IBM DS CLI Version: 5.0.0.0
DS: IBM.1750-68FA120
FlashCopy pair 0100:0200 successfully reverted.