Canceling a snapshot image rollback, Viewing the progress of a snapshot rollback – Dell PowerVault MD3820f User Manual

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3. Click Resume.

The following may occur depending on the error condition:

– If the resume rollback operation is successful — You can view the progress of the rollback

operation in the Properties pane when you select the base virtual disk or the consistency group

member virtual disk in the Logical pane.

– If the resume rollback operation is not successful — The rollback operation is paused again. The

base virtual disk or member virtual disk displays Needs Attention icons, and the controller logs the

event to the Major Event Log (MEL). You can follow the Recovery Guru procedure to correct the

problem or contact your Technical Support representative.

Canceling A Snapshot Image Rollback

Use the Cancel Rollback option to cancel a rollback operation after it has been started. You can cancel

an active rollback that is in progress (actively copying data), a pending rollback (in a pending queue

awaiting resources to start), or a rollback that has been paused due to an error. When you cancel a

rollback operation as it is in progress, the base virtual disk reverts to an unusable state and appears as

failed in the MD Storage Manager. Therefore, consider canceling a rollback operation only when recovery

options exist for restoring the content of the base virtual disk.

After you cancel a rollback operation, you must take one of the following actions:

• Reinitialize the content of the base virtual disk.
• Perform a new rollback operation to restore the base virtual disk (using either the same snapshot

image that was used in the Cancel Rollback operation or a different snapshot image to perform the

new rollback operation).

NOTE: If the snapshot group on which the snapshot image resides has one or more snapshot
images that are automatically purged, the snapshot image used for the rollback operation may not
be available for future rollbacks.

1.

From the AMW, select the Storage & Copy Services tab.

2. Select a snapshot image of either a base virtual disk or of a consistency group’s member virtual disk

and then select Copy Services → Snapshot Image → Rollback → Advanced → Cancel.
The Confirm Cancel Rollback window is displayed.

3. Click Resume.
4. Click Yes to cancel the rollback operation.
5. Type yes in the text box, and click OK.

Viewing The Progress Of A Snapshot Rollback

You can view the progress of the rollback operation in the Properties pane of the AMW when you select

the base virtual disk or consistency group member virtual disk in the Logical pane.

When a rollback operation is in progress, the following information is displayed:

• The Operation in Progress bar at the bottom of the Properties pane.
• The time remaining.

The Rollback operation is a long-running operation. The Operations in Progress window displays all of
the long-running operations that are currently running on the storage array. From this window, you can

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