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sunillp
Level 3
14 years ago

Does VxVM work with a "disk snapshot which is a block device"

Hi, We have a dg with a single physical disk that has "cdsdisk" format. I created a snapshot device (block device) SNAP_BLOCK_DEV for this physical disk. This snapshot device contains same dat...
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    Marianne
    14 years ago

    Please go to this URL:

    http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=landing&key=15107

    on the right-hand side of the screen you will find "Contacting Support".

    There are various options - email, log a call online, etc.

    Under Contact Technical Support you can select your country - a phone number will be displayed.

     

    Please give us feedback. I have not been able to find any information about your snapshot method -not sure if it's supported.

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sunillp
Level 3
14 years ago

/etc/vx/diag.d/vxprivutil scan on <vsnap-device> shows following:

[root@imits074 ~]# /etc/vx/diag.d/vxprivutil scan /dev/vs/cli6in
diskid:  1284617397.15.imit2s002
group:   name=sharedg id=1284617401.17.imit2s002
flags:   shared autoimport cds
hostid:  linuxvcs
version: 3.1
iosize:  512
public:  slice=3 offset=65792 len=10411776
private: slice=3 offset=256 len=65536
update:  time: 1284545291  seqno: 0.13
headers: 0 240
configs: count=1 len=51360
logs:    count=1 len=4096