Recovering from primary site failures, Recovering from, Primary site failures – HP StorageWorks XP Remote Web Console Software User Manual

Page 66: Recovering from primary site, Failures

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Continuous Access XP Journal

For more information about configuring Continuous Access XP Journal journal groups, see

Journal group

operations

” on page 28. For more information about configuring ports, see ”

Configuring port attributes

on page 79.

Recovering from primary site failures

If a disaster or failure occurs only at the primary site in a 3DC multi-target system, use the secondary

volume at the Continuous Access XP Synchronous secondary site to enable the secondary site to take over

the business tasks. After transferring the business tasks to the secondary site, remove the failure from the

primary site, and transfer the business tasks back to the primary site.
To transfer the business tasks to the Continuous Access XP Synchronous secondary site:

1.

Use RAID Manager to remove the Continuous Access XP Journal pair.

2.

Use RAID Manager to execute the

horctakeover

command on the Continuous Access XP

Synchronous pair.

3.

Use the Continuous Access XP Synchronous secondary volume to resume the business tasks.

4.

Check the results of the

horctakeover

command, and do either of the following:

a. If the Continuous Access XP Synchronous pair’s primary/secondary relationship is not reversed (that

is, the copy direction is not reversed as illustrated in the upper-right portion of

Figure 30

), use RAID

Manager to create a Continuous Access XP Journal pair. The Continuous Access XP Journal pair’s

primary data volume must be the Continuous Access XP Synchronous secondary volume. The

Continuous Access XP Journal pair’s secondary data volume must be the secondary data volume at

the Continuous Access XP Journal secondary site.

b. If the Continuous Access XP Synchronous pair’s primary/secondary relationship is reversed (that is,

the copy direction is reversed as illustrated in the lower-right portion of

Figure 30

), re-create the

Continuous Access XP Journal pair deleted in

step 1

. The system configuration changes from a 3DC

multi-target configuration to a 3DC cascading configuration, and the former Continuous Access XP

Synchronous secondary volume changes to the primary volume.

NOTE:

If you followed

step 4a

, transfer the business tasks back to the primary site by removing failures in the

primary site and other locations, changing the system to a 3DC multi-target configuration (see

Changing to 3DC multi-target configurations after recovering from primary site failures

” on page 67),

and following the instructions in ”

Transferring business tasks from Continuous Access XP secondary sites

to primary sites (in 3DC multi-target configurations)

” on page 69.

If you followed

step 4b

, transfer the business tasks back to the primary site by removing failures in the

primary site and other locations, and following the instructions in ”

Transferring business tasks from

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