Dell PowerVault MD3000 - Manual (Page 86)

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Using the Virtual Disk Copy Feature
3 Remove the drive letter(s) of the source and (if mounted) virtual disk in
Windows or unmount the virtual drive(s) in Linux to help guarantee a
stable copy of the drive for the virtual disk. If this is not done, the copy
operation will report that it has completed successfully, but the copied
data will not be updated properly.
4 Follow any additional instructions for your operating system. Failure to
follow these additional instructions can create unusable virtual disk copies.
NOTE:
If your operating system requires additional instructions, you can find
those instructions in your operating system documentation.
After your server has been prepared, see "Recopying the Virtual Disk" on
page 86 to recopy the virtual disk.
Recopying the Virtual Disk
After first preparing the host server(s) as specified in the preceding procedure,
use the following examples to make a virtual disk copy.
The following syntax is the general form of the command:
recopy virtualDiskCopy target [ targetName ] [source
[ sourceName ] copyPriority=(highest | high | medium
| low | lowest) targetReadOnlyEnabled=(TRUE |
FALSE)]
NOTE:
Use one or all of the optional parameters as needed to help define your
configuration. It is not necessary to use any optional parameters.
Refer to steps 1 through 4 in the preceding section, "Preparing Host Servers to
Recopy a Virtual Disk" on page 85. The following example shows a command
that changes the copy priority:
client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "recopy
virtualDiskCopy target [\"Obi_1\"] copyPriority=
highest;"
The command in this example copies data from the source virtual disk
associated with the target virtual disk Obi_1 to the target virtual disk again.
The copy priority is set to the highest value to complete the virtual disk copy
as quickly as possible. The underlying consideration for using this command
is that you have already created the virtual disk copy pair. When you create a
virtual disk copy pair, you automatically created one virtual disk copy. Using