Hi people,

We are heavy users of snapmirror DR.

We started to convert those relations to XDP from DP.

We used:
        - break snapmirror
        - snapmirror release on source
        - snapmirror delete on target
        - wait (no idea what goes on behind the scenes here)
        - snapmirror create -destination-path <path> -type XDP -policy MirrorAllSnapshots -identity-preserve true
                - source-vserver <name> -source-cluster <name>
        - snapmirror resync -destination-path <path>

This works a treat unless you have unprotected volumes.

If there are source volumes flagged unprotected and therefore not on
        the destination vserver you appear to be doomed.
        We have found  no way to ever resynmc the source to destination
        vservers.

What you up wirth is something like:


Cluster Source                  Destination                 State         Status  Policy                Progress  Size  Lag
 SRC    svm-esx:                svm-esx-dr:                 Broken-off    Idle    MirrorAllSnapshots         -    39GB  -
 SRC    svm-esx:esx_03          svm-esx-dr:esx_slinux_03    Broken-off    Idle    MirrorAllSnapshots         -     -    -
 SRC    svm-esx:esx_04          svm-esx-dr:esx_slinux_04    Broken-off    Idle    MirrorAllSnapshots         -     -    -
 SRC    svm-esx:esx_sscratch_00 svm-esx-dr:esx_sscratch_00  Uninitialized Idle    MirrorAllSnapshots         -     -    -
 SRC    svm-esx:esx_sscratch_01 svm-esx-dr:esx_sscratch_01  Uninitialized Idle    MirrorAllSnapshots         -     -    -
 SRC    svm-esx:esx_10          svm-esx-dr:esx_10           Broken-off    Idle    MirrorAllSnapshots         -     -    -
 SRC    svm-esx:esx_10          svm-esx-dr:esx_11           Broken-off    Idle    MirrorAllSnapshots         -     -    -
 SRC    svm-esx:esx_10          svm-esx-dr:esx_12           Broken-off    Idle    MirrorAllSnapshots         -     -    -


The above is hand edited so ignore any errors. You get the idea.

No amount of stuffing around (and there has been a lot)
has ever go this relationshp to work properly again.

Anyine else seen this and/or have a solution.

We have guessed that the unprotected flag is no longer supported which is annoying in itself.

Regards,
pdg

Peter Gray                                      Ph (direct): +61 2 4221 3770
Information Management & Technology Services    Ph (switch): +61 2 4221 3555
University of Wollongong                        Fax: +61 2 4229 1958
Wollongong NSW 2522                             Email: pdg@uow.edu.au
Australia                                       URL: http://pdg.uow.edu.au


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