[Info-vax] Shadow Volume Copy

AEF spamsink2001 at yahoo.com
Fri Mar 27 16:15:50 EDT 2009


On Mar 25, 10:15 am, Jan-Erik Söderholm <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com>
wrote:
> Ramon Jimenez wrote:
> > I tried it but when I could not find the way to tell VMS which shadow
> > set member must it consider as master,...
>
> There is no "master". The two disks are equal.

Well, yes and no:

            ----- SHAD Device summary for $1$DKA0  -----

Device $1$DKA0 ... Master Member
  Index 0 Status     000000A0 src,valid
  UCB 8717A8F0   VCB 878BA900   Unit Id. 11610000 00000001
        Member Read Bias 0000002A
Device $1$DKA100
  Index 1 Status     000000A0 src,valid
  UCB 878A1C40   VCB 878BA580   Unit Id. 11610064 00000001
        Member Read Bias 0000002A

        *** I/O request queue is empty ***


    Press RETURN for more.

I believe this breaks the tie for merge operations. Also, the boot
disk in a shadow set will be its "master". But yes, for this purpose,
the disks are identical.

>
> > so the existing one always
> > overwrite the copied.
>
> You mean when re-mounted ?
> That is what you want, right ?

AEF



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