Veritas Volume Manager 5.0 Troubleshooting Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

Chapter
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
■ Failure of vxsnap make for full-sized instant snapshots
■ Failure of vxsnap make for break-off instant snapshots
■ Failure of vxsnap make for space-optimized instant snapshots
■ Failure of vxsnap restore
■ Failure of vxsnap reattach or refresh
■ Copy-on-write failure
■ I/O errors during resynchronization
■ I/O failure on a DCO volume
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.