IBM DS6000 Manual Do Utilizador

Chapter 9. FlashCopy interfaces 

This section summarizes the 

 and 

 you can use when managing 

FlashCopy at the local and at the remote site.

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.

Create a local FlashCopy

mkflash

Create

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

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