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Reverse resynchronizing mirror relationships

You can use Storage Manager to reestablish a mirror relationship that was previously broken. In a reverse resynchronization operation, you reverse the functions of the source and destination.

Before you begin

The source volume must be online.

About this task

  • You can use the destination volume to serve data while you repair or replace the source, update the source, and reestablish the original configuration of the systems.

  • When you perform reverse resynchronization, the contents on the mirror source are overwritten by the contents on the destination.

    Attention
    This operation can cause data loss on the source.
  • When you perform reverse resynchronization, the mirror policy of the relationship is set to DPDefault and the mirror schedule is set to None.

  • You cannot use Storage Manager to perform a reverse resynchronization operation in the following scenarios:

    • For Infinite Volumes with storage classes, if new constituents have been added to the source Infinite Volume since the mirror relationship was created.

      You should use OnCommand Workflow Automation instead.

    • For a mirror relationship between Infinite Volumes, if the cluster peer relationship is in an unhealthy state.

      You should use the command-line interface (CLI) instead.

  1. Click Protection > Relationships .
  2. Select the mirror relationship that you want to reverse.
  3. Click Operations > Reverse Resync .
  4. Select the confirmation check box, and click Reverse Resync .
  5. Optional: If you are reverse resynchronizing a mirror relationship between Infinite Volumes, click Run in Background to run the operation in the background.