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Chapter 7. FlashCopy options

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FlashCopy with copy option

If the original FlashCopy was established with the

copy

option (full volume copy), then the

updates that took place on the source volume since the last FlashCopy will be copied to
the target volume. Also, the updates done on the target volume will be overwritten with the
contents of the source volume.

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Figure 7-3 Updates to the target volume caused by a refresh

When initializing a FlashCopy with

Start Change Recording

activated, a second and third

bitmap will be used to identify writes done to the source or the target volume (see Figure 7-4).

Figure 7-4 FlashCopy with Start Change Recording set

no updates in source

no updates in source

updates took place

in source volume

updates took place

in source volume

no updates in target

updates took place

in target volume

no updates in target volume

updates took place

in target volume

nothing to be

done as data

was already

copied from

source to target

and is identical

on both sides

current source
data will be
copied to target

source volume

target volume

time

Reads and writes with Start Change Recording option set

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bitmap

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data

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target

data

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b

write x

write y

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read

read 1 read 2

before physical write to the source:
copy time-zero data from the source to the target

source

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write a

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write b

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time-zero data
not yet available
in target :
read it from
source.

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