VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Administrator's Guide (September 2004)

Creating and Administering Plexes

Copying Plexes

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Copying Plexes

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

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

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

# vxplex cp volume new_plex

After the copy task is complete, new_plex is not associated with the

speciﬁed volume volume. 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.