Creating symclone session for a device group

thank you ..thinking one thing and typing another ...

in both lines device 0023 ? That's a typo, right ?

you should be able to find -tgt option in the "Symmetrix TimeFinder Family Cli 6.4" guide. You are not going to do timefinder operations with gatekeepers are you ?

so let's say you need to clone one device to another, first you would add them to your device group:

symld -g DgName add dev 0023 -sid 123 <- so this is your source device
symld -g DgName add dev 0023 -sid 123 -tgt <- this is your target device

and then you can issue symclone -g DgName establish which in the backgroup will do create/activate for you.

perfect ..thank you for catching that.

so
symld -g DgName add dev 0022 -sid 123 <- so this is your source device
symld -g DgName add dev 0023 -sid 123 -tgt <- this is your target device

Del Corno man ...where you at ..too quiet here

Sorry for the late response....

I confused somewhat here. In previous response you have mentioned that use of "-tgt" option while creating a copy session on a DG.

symclone -g DG_Name create -tgt -diff -copy
symclone -g DG_Name activate -tgt

But now i've been asking to use "-tgt" when adding a sym device to a DG.

symld -g DgName add dev 0023 -sid 123 <- so this is your source device
symld -g DgName add dev 0023 -sid 123 -tgt <- this is your target device

Do i need to use this option in both commands i.e while adding a device to a DG and creating a session or in any one command is enough?

yes, if you do not use -tgt option when you add devices to device group, they will appear right next to your source devices and when you run symclone establish or (create/activate) against the group it will fail because it will have no idea which device is source and which device is target. So when you add your target devices to device group with -tgt you are designating those devices to be your target devices for clone session. Now that you have added them and you run symdg show DGName ..you will see that they will be listed as target devices. When it's time to run your symclone commands you have to use -tgt as you are telling symclone that hey ..i have specifically defined my target devices with -tgt option ..they are your target devices for symclone session.

Dynamox's typo is in there. Please make sure your source and target are different symdevs !!!

Thank you very much dynamox....

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