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.