26 quick disaster recovery guide – HP 3PAR Operating System Software User Manual

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26 Quick Disaster Recovery Guide

See:

To recover from primary system downtime for:

“Quick Recovery: 1-to-1 and M-to-N Remote-Copy
Configurations” (page 259)

1-to-1

N-to-1

1-to-N

“Quick Recovery: Synchronous Long Distance
Configurations” (page 260)

SLD

For additional information, see the following:

“Disaster Recovery for 1-to-1 Configurations” (page 171)

“Disaster Recovery for N-to-1 Configurations” (page 181)

“Disaster Recovery for 1-to-N Configurations” (page 191)

“Disaster Recovery for Synchronous Long Distance” (page 202)

“About the Remote-Copy Commands” (page 261)

Quick Recovery: 1-to-1 and M-to-N Remote-Copy Configurations

Table 13 Quick Recovery Steps for 1-to-1 and M-to-N Remote-Copy Configurations

Failed/Recovered System

Failover System

Step

setrcopygroup failover -t

<target_name>

1.

Change secondary volume groups
to primary.

(of failed system)

showrcopy

2.

Verify group reversal.

(Optional) Export the reversed virtual
volumes as read/write snapshots.

3.

Back up data.

Recover the failed system.

4.

Prepare to resume normal
operation.

Stop I/O to the reversed volume
groups.

5.

Stop writes.

setrcopygroup recover -t

<target_name>

6.

Reverse the natural direction of
data flow and synchronize the
systems.

(of recovered system)

showrcopy

showrcopy

7.

Verify synchronization.

showrcopy groups <group_name>

8.

Verify volume groups are started.

(Do not continue until groups are
started and synced.)

(of volume group that should be started)

setrcopygroup restore -t

<target_name>

9.

Restore the natural direction of
data flow.

(of recovered system)

showrcopy

showrcopy

10.

Verify natural data flow restored.

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