VERITAS Volume Manager 4.1 Troubleshooting Guide

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2 Recovery from Failure of Instant
Snapshot Operations
This chapter describes how to recover from various failure and error conditions that may
occur during instant snapshot operations:
• “Failure of vxsnap prepare” on page 36
• “Failure of vxsnap make for Full-Sized Instant Snapshots” on page 37
• “Failure of vxsnap make for Break-Off Instant Snapshots” on page 38
• “Failure of vxsnap make for Space-Optimized Instant” on page 39
• “Failure of vxsnap restore” on page 40
• “Failure of vxsnap reattach or refresh” on page 41
• “I/O Errors During Resynchronization” on page 43
• “I/O Failure on a DCO Volume” on page 44
See the VERITAS Volume Manager Administrator’s Guide and the vxsnap(1M) manual page
for full details of the creation and administration of instant snapshots.