Attention:
Risk of application errors – Windows operating systems traditionally support a Master Boot Record (MBR) disk partition format. The 64-bit version of the Windows Server 2003 operating system supports the GUID Partition Table (GPT) disk partition format. The 32-bit version of the Windows Server 2003 operating systems does not support this partition format and does not know how to correctly access a GPT disk. When a base logical drive mapped to a 64-bit Windows Server 2003 host is with the GPT disk partition format, any flashcopy logical drives created from this base logical drive must also be mapped to a 64-bit Windows Server 2003 host. If you map the flashcopy logical drive to a 32-bit Windows Server 2003 host, the operating system does not recognize the partition format of the flashcopy logical drive. Alternatively, you can initialize the base logical drive on the 64-bit Windows Server 2003 host with the older MBR disk partition format, and any flashcopys of that base logical drive are accessible by other 32-bit Windows hosts.Typically, when a has been created, it is disabled until a new point-in-time image of the same is required. Use this procedure to create a new point-in-time image of the same base logical drive.
Important:
Stop all activity to the base logical drive or suspend data transfer before starting this procedure. Stopping all I/O activity makes sure that an accurate point-in-time image of the base logical drive is captured. Close all applications, including Windows Explorer, to make sure all I/O activity has stopped.
SMrepassist -f <filesystem-identifier>
In this command, <filesystem-identifier> is the drive letter assigned to the flashcopy logical drive.
mountvol [drive:]path /l
In this command, [drive:]path is the NTFS folder where the mount point resides.
mountvol [drive:]path /d
In this command, [drive:]path is the NTFS folder where the mount point resides.
The disk is unmounted. For more information about using the mountvol utility, refer to your operating system documentation.
remove volume ["volume-name"]
In this command, ["volume name"] is the flashcopy logical drive name.
For command reference-specific information about disabling a flashcopy logical drive, refer to the online help topics in the Enterprise Management Window.
disableSnapshot volume
For command reference-specific information about disabling a flashcopy logical drive, refer to the online help topics in the Enterprise Management Window.
SMrepassist -f <filesystem-identifier>
In this command, <filesystem-identifier> is the disk drive letter assigned to the base logical drive.
recreateSnapshot volume
For command reference-specific information about re-creating a flashcopy logical drive, refer to the online help topics in the Enterprise Management Window.
Important:
If you stopped I/O activity to the base logical drive or suspended data transfer, resume I/O activity to the base logical drive at this time, or start data transfer).
create mapping volume
For command reference-specific information about creating a mapping, refer to the online help topics in the Enterprise Management Window.
mountvol [drive:]path Volume{GUID}
In this command, [drive:]path is the NTFS folder where the mount point will reside, and Volume{GUID} is the name of the logical drive that is the target of the mount point in VolumeGUID format.
label [drive:][label]
In this command, [drive:] is the location of the disk drive that you want to name, and [label] is the new logical drive label.
chkdsk [drive:]
In this command, [drive:] is the disk drive that contains the disk that you want to check.
For more information, refer to the Disabling a FlashCopy Logical Drive online help topic and the Re-creating a FlashCopy Logical Drive online help topic.
For command reference information about disabling and re-creating a sflashcopy logical drive, refer to the online help topics in the Enterprise Management Window.