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SRDF/S and SRDF/A configuration involves tasks such as suspending and resuming the replication, failover from R1 side to R2, restoring R1 or R2 volumes from their BCV, and more. You perform these and other SRDF/S or SRDF/A operations using both symrdf and TimeFinder command symmir. The below details are for SRDF Pair states during SRDF procedure.SyncInProg :- A synchronization is currently in progress between the R1 and the R2. There are existing invalid tracks between the two pairs and the logical link between both sides of...

I am going to discuss about TimeFinder BCV Split operation where Host running on Oracle Database. This split operation is different from normal BCV split operation. There are differences in command as well. Thats reason I am putting steps for this:The following steps describes splitting BCV devices that hold a database supporting a host running an Oracle database. In this case, the BCV split operation is in an environment without PowerPath or ECA. The split operation described here suspends writes to a database momentarily while...