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Make the destination volume writeable with ONTAP

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You need to make the destination volume writeable before you can serve data from the volume to clients. To serve data from a mirror destination when a source becomes unavailable, stop scheduled transfers to the destination, and then break the SnapMirror relationship to make the destination writable.

About this task

You must perform this task from the destination SVM or the destination cluster.

Steps

You can use System Manager or the ONTAP CLI to make a destination volume writable.

  1. Select the protection relationship: click Protection > Relationships, and then click the desired volume name.

  2. Click Menu options icon.

  3. Stop scheduled transfers : click Pause.

  4. Make the destination writable: click Break.

  5. Go to the main Relationships page to verify that the relationship state displays as "broken off".

Next steps

You need to reverse resynchronize the replication relationship after you make a destination volume writeable.

When the disabled source volume is available again, you should reverse resynchronize the relationship again to copy the current data to the original source volume.

Other ways to do this in ONTAP

To perform these tasks with…​ See this content…​

System Manager Classic (available with ONTAP 9.7 and earlier)

Volume disaster recovery overview