Shadow volumes by their very definition never enter the vldb.

Steve

On Nov 15, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Arne Wiebalck wrote:

> Dear all,
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> If detecting shadow volumes, does 'vos syncvldb' really update VLDB entries 
> to point to the shadow location instead of the location of the R/W source 
> volume 
> as stated in the man page? (Some simple tests and a quick check in the code 
> seem to indicate that at least in 1.4 this is not the case).
> 
> Would I need to run 'vos delentry' on all volumes before running 'vos 
> syncvldb' 
> on the shadow server or is there something else I should do?
> 
> I assume that in a disaster recovery situation where the source server is not 
> reachable I probably need to delete the entries anyway as 
> - 'vos syncvldb' will need a macroscopic timeout for each volume on the 
>  unreachable server, and
> - it will not even update VLDB in the end if communication fails. Correct?
> 
> TIA,
> Arne
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> Arne Wiebalck
> CERN IT/DSS
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