Recovery failback — Confirm

Use this page to confirm the volume pairs on which to run the recovery failback operation to allow changed data to be sent back to your production site to synchronize the volume pairs.

Introduction

When you perform a failback operation, only changed data is sent to your production site to synchronize the volumes, thereby helping to reduce the time required to complete the failback operation. A failover operation is followed by a failback operation after a path from the recovery site to the production site is created.

During the failback process, your current source volume at your production site becomes a target volume of your new failback operation at your recovery site. After the process runs, the volume pairs at the recovery site are resynchronize with their peer volumes at the production site. The storage unit ensures that the volumes that are resynchronized are the volumes that were originally established. The recovery failback is done on the tracks that is associated with the specified storage unit when you click OK.
Note: Volumes sizes for operations that use failover and failback must be the same; otherwise, the failback operation fails.

Menu path

Real-time manager > Copy services > Metro Mirror > Select a volume pair > Select Action: Recovery failback > Go

Fields

Suspend after create
The selected volume pairs are suspended after they are created. After the selected volume pairs are suspended, only updated data is copied to the source (local) site when the pairs are synchronized again.
Pairs to be failed back
The categories by which to select volume pairs to run the recovery failback operation:
Source Nickname
The nickname of the source volume of the selected volume pair.
Source ID
The volume ID (or name) of the source volume of the selected volume pair.
Target Nickname
The nickname of the target volume of the selected volume pair.
Target ID
The volume ID (or name) of the target volume of the selected volume pair.
Related reference
Using hexadecimal values
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