Users Guide

Example 2: Deleting a Smart Copy Identified By Object ID

To ensure you are deleting the correct Smart Copy, list Smart Copies in very verbose mode to display full information for the Smart

Copies.

# asmcli list smart-copy --source /source/VolB -verbose

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Smart Copies

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Source: hostname.mycompany.com : /source/VolB

Snapshot: 04-Jan-2017 16:24:29.074310

Status: Mounted as /snapshots/VolB

ObjectId: c-01e943-574012772-74bc9cfd88221283

volb --> volb-2017-01-04-16:21:34.215.1 on glengrp

Snapshot: 05-Jan-2017 15:26:17.183220

Description: Hourly snapshot of user space

Schedule: user-hourly

ObjectId: e-bd6416-7e4e51801-ab61e09f2557cf81

volb --> volb-2017-01-05-15:23:20.224.1 on glengrp

Snapshot: 05-Jan-2017 17:05:57.846661

Description: Hourly snapshot of user space

Schedule: user-hourly

ObjectId: 8-b8b03d-7444e1f3e-626856b008bde08e

volb --> volb-2017-01-05-17:03:01.225.1 on glengrp

3 Smart Copies found.

Specify the Smart Copy to delete using the --object option.

# asmcli delete smart-copy --object c-01e943-574012772-74bc9cfd88221283

Error: Failed to delete Smart Copy c-01e943-574012772-74bc9cfd88221283

because it is still mounted at /snapshots/VolB.

Did not remove the Smart Copy.

To delete a Smart Copy, you must first unmount and log off the Smart Copy. The ummount smart-copy command performs both

operations.

# asmcli unmount smart-copy --object c-01e943-574012772-74bc9cfd88221283

Unmounted /snapshots/VolB/source/VolB

Removing sessions to 1 Smart Copy target.

Logged out volb-2017-01-04-16:21:34.215.1 on glengrp

Successfully unmounted 1 mount point and logged out from 1 target.

Delete the unmounted Smart Copy:

# asmcli delete smart-copy --object c-01e943-574012772-74bc9cfd88221283

Deleted Smart Copy: c-01e943-574012772-74bc9cfd88221283

Successfully removed the Smart Copy.

Restoring a Smart Copy

Use the asmcli restore smart-copy command to restore data from a Smart Copy. For information about data restoration, see

About Restoring Data From a Smart Copy.

Auto-Snapshot Manager Command Line Interface