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Activate the destination FlexGroup volume

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When the source FlexGroup volume is unable to serve data due to events such as data corruption, accidental deletion or an offline state, you must activate the destination FlexGroup volume to provide data access until you recover the data on the source FlexGroup volume. Activation involves stopping future SnapMirror data transfers and breaking the SnapMirror relationship.

About this task

You must perform this task from the destination cluster.

Steps
  1. Disable future transfers for the FlexGroup volume SnapMirror relationship: snapmirror quiesce dest_svm:dest_flexgroup

    cluster2::> snapmirror quiesce -destination-path vsd:dst
  2. Break the FlexGroup volume SnapMirror relationship: snapmirror break dest_svm:dest_flexgroup

    cluster2::> snapmirror break -destination-path vsd:dst
  3. View the status of the SnapMirror relationship: snapmirror show -expand

    cluster2::> snapmirror show -expand
                                                                           Progress
    Source            Destination Mirror  Relationship   Total             Last
    Path        Type  Path        State   Status         Progress  Healthy Updated
    ----------- ---- ------------ ------- -------------- --------- ------- --------
    vss:s       XDP  vsd:dst        Broken-off
                                          Idle           -         true    -
    vss:s__0001 XDP  vsd:dst__0001  Broken-off
                                          Idle           -         true    -
    vss:s__0002 XDP  vsd:dst__0002  Broken-off
                                          Idle           -         true    -
    vss:s__0003 XDP  vsd:dst__0003  Broken-off
                                          Idle           -         true    -
    vss:s__0004 XDP  vsd:dst__0004  Broken-off
                                          Idle           -         true    -
    vss:s__0005 XDP  vsd:dst__0005  Broken-off
                                          Idle           -         true    -
    vss:s__0006 XDP  vsd:dst__0006  Broken-off
                                          Idle           -         true    -
    vss:s__0007 XDP  vsd:dst__0007  Broken-off
                                          Idle           -         true    -
    vss:s__0008 XDP  vsd:dst__0008  Broken-off
                                          Idle           -         true    -
    ...

    The SnapMirror relationship status of each constituent is Broken-off.

  4. Verify that the destination FlexGroup volume is read/write: volume show -vserver svm_name

    cluster2::> volume show -vserver vsd
    Vserver   Volume       Aggregate    State      Type       Size  Available Used%
    --------- ------------ ------------ ---------- ---- ---------- ---------- -----
    vsd       dst          -            online     **RW**          2GB     1.54GB   22%
    vsd       d2           -            online     DP          2GB     1.55GB   22%
    vsd       root_vs0     aggr1        online     RW        100MB    94.02MB    5%
    3 entries were displayed.
  5. Redirect clients to the destination FlexGroup volume.