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Restore a timefinder snap to a clone:
Hi, I have snaps and clones associated with the same source LUN. Snaps run more frequently than Clones. Due to business reason, we have to restore a snap to a clone, then to the source LUN. Is it possible to restore a snap to a clone? Thanx.
PedalHarder
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Posted August 24th, 2011 15:00
You will need to terminate the clone session before running the snap restore because the clone device can not be the target of 2 different local replica operations concurrently.
i will warn you that snap restore to an alternate device (other then the original source) is extremely slow. We had a ticket open with engineering and they told us that's the way it is. That was back on DMX4 , when VMAX came around i thought maybe this was addressed ..not so much, horrible performance. Took 20 minutes to restore 8.6G symdev. I am not sure if you can use target of alternate restore immediately and not wait for restore to finish (something that you can do with regular snapshot restores).
dynamox
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Posted August 25th, 2011 11:00
take a look at Solutions Enabler Symmetrix TimeFinder product guide, search for "Fully restoring to anywhere"