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mhab11
Level 5
13 years ago
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Can I manually change drive status information

Server 2008r2, SFWHA5.1. I while back I had my main drive go corrupt. I renamed one of my snapshot drives changed the drive letter and I was back up and running. My question is the Volume status is "Healthy(Shadow copy - read/write), NTFS"

Is there a way to remove the "(Shadow Copy - read/write)" part so it goes back to the original "Healthy, NTFS"?

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  • mikebounds's avatar
    mikebounds
    13 years ago

    Use snapclear - see extract from SFW Admin guide:

     

    vxassist snapclear
    vxassist -g<DynamicDiskGroupName> snapclear
    <VolumeName |SnapVolumeName | DriveLetter | VmName |DrivePath>
    [plex=<SnapPlexName>] [<SnapshotName>]
    Clears the association between the original volume and the snapshot
    volume and makes the snapshot volume and original volume two
    independent volumes. The vxassist snapclear command can be
    specified only after the vxassist snapshot command has been issued.
    After the vxassist snapclear command runs, the snapshot volume
    becomes an ordinary volume and cannot be snapped back to the original
    volume.
    You can probably do this from GUI also - just see if "snapclear" option is there.
     
    Mike

     

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  • mikebounds's avatar
    mikebounds
    Level 6
    13 years ago

    Use snapclear - see extract from SFW Admin guide:

     

    vxassist snapclear
    vxassist -g<DynamicDiskGroupName> snapclear
    <VolumeName |SnapVolumeName | DriveLetter | VmName |DrivePath>
    [plex=<SnapPlexName>] [<SnapshotName>]
    Clears the association between the original volume and the snapshot
    volume and makes the snapshot volume and original volume two
    independent volumes. The vxassist snapclear command can be
    specified only after the vxassist snapshot command has been issued.
    After the vxassist snapclear command runs, the snapshot volume
    becomes an ordinary volume and cannot be snapped back to the original
    volume.
    You can probably do this from GUI also - just see if "snapclear" option is there.
     
    Mike