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N-to-1 Asynchronous Periodic Disaster Recovery Example
Remote Copy User’s Guide InForm OS Version 2.3.1
The following example displays the showrcopy command output on InServ1 300 seconds
after InServ2 has become unavailable:
To initiate disaster recovery for a Remote Copy pair with asynchronous periodic volume
groups:
1 On the failover system, make all secondary groups primary by reversing the direction of the
failed targets for each group. Issuing the
setrcopygroup failover command switches
every secondary group for the specified target. For this example, this is done by reversing
On InServ1:
# showrcopy
Remote Copy System Information
Status: Started, Normal
Target Information
Name ID Type Status Options Policy
InServ2 7 IP failed mirror_config
InServ3 8 IP ready mirror_config
Link Information
Target Node Address Status Options
InServ2 0 10.100.33.96 Down
InServ2 1 10.101.33.96 Down
InServ3 0 10.100.33.11 Up
InServ3 1 10.101.33.11 Up
receive 0 10.100.33.96 Up
receive 1 10.101.33.96 Up
Group Information
Name Target Status Role Mode Options
periodic_group_1.r96 InServ2 Stopped Secondary Periodic over_per_alert
LocalVV ID RemoteVV ID SyncStatus LastSyncTime
remotevv.0 21 localvv.0 413 Stopped Thu Dec 14 18:23:52 PST 2006
remotevv.1 22 localvv.1 414 Stopped Thu Dec 14 18:23:52 PST 2006
Name Target Status Role Mode Options
periodic_group_2.r11 InServ3 Started Secondary Periodic over_per_alert
LocalVV ID RemoteVV ID SyncStatus LastSyncTime
remotevv.2 23 localvv.0 385 Synced Thu Dec 14 18:23:45 PST 2006
remotevv.3 24 localvv.1 386 Synced Thu Dec 14 18:23:44 PST 2006