Releasing partners from a SnapMirror relationship

To permanently end a SnapMirror relationship between a source and destination pair of volumes or qtrees, you need to use different commands on the source and destination storage systems.

Considerations

Steps

1. On the source system, enter the following command:snapmirror release {source_volume | qtree_path}[dest_system:]{dest_volume | qtree_path}

   source_volume or qtree_path is the name of the source volume or path to the qtree that you want to release from the destination.

   dest_system is the name of the system where the destination is located.

   dest_volume or qtree_path is the name of the volume or path to the qtree that is the destination.

   If you do not enter the name of the destination system, SnapMirror uses the name of the system on which you entered the command.

   Example

   For a SnapMirror volume relationship

   systemA> snapmirror release vol0 systemB:vol2

   Example

   For a SnapMirror qtree relationship

   systemA> snapmirror release vol/vol1/qtree2 systemB:/vol/vol2/qtree5

   SnapMirror frees all resources on the source system that had been dedicated to the SnapMirror relationship.

2. On the destination system, enter the following command to break the SnapMirror relationship between the source and destination objects. snapmirror break {vol_name | qtree_path}

   vol_name is the name of the volume that you want to release from the relationship.

   qtree_path is the path of the qtree that you want to release from the relationship.

3. On the destination system, use the snapmirror status -l command to determine which Snapshot copy basename is associated with the SnapMirror relationship that you just broke.
   • For a broken SnapMirror volume relationshipsnapmirror status -l dest_vol
   • For a broken SnapMirror qtree relationshipsnapmirror status -l /vol/dest_vol/dest_qtree

   In the detailed output that is displayed, note the Snapshot copy basename associated with the SnapMirror relationship that you just broke.

4. On the destination system, use the following command to delete the Snapshot copy set that you displayed in the previous step.snap delete dest_vol snapshot_basename
5. Through the Adminhost client, edit the /etc/snapmirror.conf file on the destination system. Locate and delete the entry that specifies the SnapMirror relationship you want to end.