VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Administrator's Guide

Volume Tasks

Copying Plexes

Chapter 6274

Copying Plexes

This task copies the contents of a volume onto a speciﬁed plex. The

volume to be copied cannot be enabled. The plex cannot be associated

with any other volume. To copy a plex, use the following command:

# vxplex cp

volume_name new_plex

After the copy task is complete,

new_plex

is not associated with the

speciﬁed volume

volume_name

. The plex contains a complete copy of the

volume data. The plex that is being copied should be the same size or

larger than the volume. If the plex being copied is larger than the

volume, an incomplete copy of the data results. For the same reason,

new_plex

should not be sparse.