VERITAS Volume Manager 3.1 Storage Administrator Administrator's Guide

Volume Tasks
Repairing a Mirror
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Repairing a Mirror
This procedure repairs a disabled mirror by reattaching the mirror to its
volume. This involves copying data from an active mirror on the volume
to the mirror being attached. Once attached, the mirror is accessible for
reads and writes again.
Alert icons and the Alert Monitor window may provide clues to let you
know that a mirror needs to be repaired.
To repair a mirror
Step 1. Select the volume that contains the mirror to be repaired.
Step 2. Choose Volumes > Mirror > Repair (Selected menu) or Mirror Repair
(Command Launcher).
Step 3. Complete the Repair Mirror dialog box as follows:
When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box,
click OK.
Select a mirror to
repair:
Select the mirror to be repaired.
Notes:
• This task recovers the mirror so that it has the same contents as
other mirrors in the volume.
• This task may take a long time, depending on the amount of data in
the volume.