Releasing a SnapMirror source-to-tape relationship

After a successful update of the destination system over a connection, you no longer require the source-to-tape SnapMirror relationship and its associated Snapshot copy that you established with the snapmirror store command.

Steps

1. In the source system console, enter the following command:snapmirror status

   Your system will display at least two SnapMirror relationships.

   • The source-to-tape relationship, established when you used the snapmirror store command
   • The source-to-destination relationship, established when you used the snapmirror update command

   Example

   >snapmirror status
   ....
   source          destination     state     .... 
   s_system:vol1   snapmirror_tape_01_15_03_20:05:32  ...
   s_system:vol1   d_system:vol1   snapmirrored  ...
   

2. Release the source-to-tape SnapMirror relationship. For this particular operation, the snapmirror release syntax is unique.snapmirror release source_vol tape_snapshot_name

   Example

   snapmirror release vol1 snapmirror_tape_01_15_03_20:05:32

   Note: Do not release any other SnapMirror relationship. Those relationships are necessary to continue your incremental updates over the low-bandwidth connection.