Dell PowerVault MD3200 CLI Guide - Page 76
Re-creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk, delete virtualDisk
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SMrepassist -f and press . See "SMrepassist Utility" in the Owner's Manual for more information. 3 Remove the drive letter(s) of the source and (if mounted) snapshot virtual disk in Windows or unmount the virtual drive(s) in Linux to help guarantee a stable copy of the drive for the Snapshot. If this is not done, the snapshot operation reports that it has completed successfully, but the snapshot data is not updated properly. 4 Follow any additional instructions for your operating system. Failure to follow these additional instructions can create unusable snapshot virtual disks. NOTE: If your operating system requires additional instructions, you can find those instructions in your operating system documentation. After your server has been prepared, see "Re-creating the Snapshot Virtual Disk" on page 75 to re-create the snapshot virtual disk. Re-creating a Snapshot Virtual Disk After first preparing the host server(s) as specified in the preceding procedure, use the following examples to re-create a virtual disk snapshot. Refer to steps 1 through 4 in the preceding section, "Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a Snapshot Virtual Disk" on page 75. The following example shows the command to restart a snapshot virtual disk: client>smcli 123.45.67.89 -c "recreate snapshot virtualDisks [\"Mars_Spirit_4-2\" \"Mars_Spirit_43\"];" Refer to steps 1 through 4 in the preceding section, "Preparing Host Servers to Re-create a Snapshot Virtual Disk" on page 75. The following example is the script file version of the command: recreate snapshot virtualDisks ["Mars_Spirit_4-2" "Mars_Spirit_4-3"]; If you do not intend to use a snapshot virtual disk again, you can delete the snapshot virtual disk using the delete virtualDisk command. When you delete a snapshot virtual disk, the associated snapshot repository virtual disk is also deleted. 76 Using the Snapshot Feature