Dell PowerVault MD 32XX/36XX Series Storage Arrays CLI Guide

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Resume Consistency Group Snapshot Virtual Disk

Description

This command restarts a copy-on-write operation for creating a consistency group snapshot virtual disk that you stopped using the stop cgSnapVirtualDisk command.

Syntax

resume cgSnapVirtualDisk ["
                                 snapVirtualDiskName"]
                                 cgSnapImage="
                                 snapImageName"

Parameters

Parameter

Description

cgSnapVirtualDisk

The name of the consistency group snapshot virtual disk for which you want to restart a rollback operation. Enclose the name of the consistency group snapshot virtual disk in double quotation marks (" ") inside square brackets ([ ]).

cgSnapImage

The name of the snapshot image in a consistency group that you are restarting. The name of a snapshot image is comprised of two parts:

The name of the consistency group.
An identifier for the snapshot image in the consistency group.

The identifier for the snapshot image can be one of these:

An integer value that is the sequence number of the snapshot in the consistency group.
NEWEST - Use this option when you want to show the latest snapshot image created in the consistency group.
OLDEST - Use this option when you want to show the earliest snapshot image created in the consistency group.

Enclose the snapshot image name in double quotation marks (" ").

Notes

The name of a snapshot image has two parts separated by a colon (:):

The identifier of the snapshot group
The identifier of the snapshot image

For example, if you want to restart a copy-on-write operation for snapshot image 12345 which is in snapshot consistency group snapgroup1 in a consistency group snapshot virtual disk that has the name snapVol1, you would use this command:

resume cgSnapVirtualDisk ["snapVol1"] cgSnapImage=["snapgroup1:12345"]