Sync While Active - full synchronization - assure_mimix - 6.0

There are two ways that you can execute sync while active to perform a full synchronization of the Production Volume Set (PVS) or one or more Logical Volumes (LVs) in the PVS.

1. From the Assure UI portal, navigate to the Logical Volumes portlet:

   • To synchronize specific logical volumes, select the logical volumes to synchronize and click the Synchronize action, or select Synchronize from the Action dropdown.

   • To synchronize all logical volumes, select the check box to the left of the Logical Volumes column, and click the Synchronize action.

   Note: Synchronize actions are not available when a synchronize action is already in progress or the replication group processes are not running.

2. From the command line:

• To synchronize all logical volumes in the replication group use the following command:

scconfig -C<Context ID> -B

Keep in mind the following while scconfig -B is running:

• Do not cycle Assure MIMIX for AIX or the servers.

• Ensure that you do not lose your terminal session, use (nohup scconfig -B &).

If the scconfig –C<Context ID> -B command was interrupted and the command is re-executed, any logical volume in the replication group that is partially synchronized, 0.000% synchronized or 100.000% synchronized will be started from the beginning.

• To restart synchronization of all logical volumes in the replication group from where the previous operation left off, use the following command:

scconfig –C<Context ID> -B -G (Restarts from where the previous operation left off.)

The following conditions apply:

• Any logical volume in the replication group that is partially synchronized will be restarted from where the previous operation left off.

• Any logical volume in the replication group that is 100.000% synchronized will be not be restarted.

• Any logical volumes in the replication group that is 0.000% synchronized will be started from the beginning.

• To synchronize one or more specific logical volumes in the replication group, use the following command:

scconfig -C<Context ID> -B -L (name from sclist -ZC<Context ID>) -L (name from sclist -ZC<Context ID>)

If this command was interrupted and the command is re-executed, any specific logical volume that is partially synchronized, 0.000% synchronized or 100.000% synchronized will be started from the beginning.

• To restart synchronization of one or more specific logical volumes in the replication group from where the previous operation left off, use the following command:

scconfig -C<Context ID> -B -G -L (name from sclist -ZC<Context ID>) -L (name from sclist - ZC<Context ID>)

The following conditions apply:

• Any specific logical volume in the replication group that is partially synchronized will be restarted from where the previous operation left off.

• Any specific logical volume in the replication group that is 100.000% synchronized will be not be restarted.

• Any specific logical volumes in the replication group that is 0.000% synchronized will be started from the beginning.