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Chapter 9. FlashCopy interfaces 71
9.2 DS CLI and DS SM - commands and options
This section summarizes the commands and select options you can use when managing
FlashCopy at the local and at the remote site.
9.2.1 Local FlashCopy management
The commands you can use as well as the displayed panel actions and options you can
select when working with the DS6000-provided interfaces DS CLI and DS SM for local
FlashCopy management are listed in Table 9-1.
Local FlashCopy refers to the situation where the FlashCopy is local as opposed to a remote
FlashCopy. For a discussion of the characteristics of a remote FlashCopy refer to Section 7.5,
“Remote FlashCopy” on page 59.
Table 9-1 Local FlashCopy using DS CLI and DS SM
Options Command with
DS CLI
Select option
with DS SM
Create a FlashCopy
Create a local FlashCopy mkflash Create
Work with an existing FlashCopy
Display a list of FlashCopy relationships lsflash Main panel
Modify a FlashCopy pair that is part of a Global Mirror
relationship to revertible
setflashrevertible Restorable,
Record Changes
wizard
Commit data to the target volume commitflash
Increment an existing FlashCopy pair resyncflash
(prerequisites:
-record and
-persist)
Resynch target
Change the source-target-relationship A->B to B->A reverseflash Reverse
relationship
Re-establish contents of target B by contents of source A
as it was during last consistency formation
revertflash Consistency
Groups not
supported
Reset a FlashCopy Consistency Group unfreezeflash Consistency
Groups not
supported
Run new background copy for persistent FlashCopy rmflash -cp Background copy
Terminate FlashCopy
Remove local FlashCopy rmflash Delete
Is automatically removed as soon as all
data is copied and FlashCopy pair wasn’t
established using the -persist parameter