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Establishing BCV Pairs

Overview
Uses for BCV copies (TimeFinder mirroring) can include backup, restore, decision support, and
application testing. After configuration and initialization of a Symmetrix array, BCV devices
contain no data. The full establish operation must be used the first time the standard devices
are paired with their BCV devices. (For an incremental establish operation, see step note 5.)

Done

This procedure is based on content from the following EMC manual:

EMC Solutions Enabler Symmetrix TimeFinder Family Product Guide
This document can be obtained from the EMC Powerlink website at:
http://Powerlink.EMC.com

1.

Associate the BCV for pairing

To perform TimeFinder mirroring or standard/BCV pairing, the standard and BCV mirror
devices of your production images must be members of the same device group. Initially, for
the creation of given standard/BCV pair, the potential BCV device must first be associated with
an existing device or device group. When you associate a BCV device with a standard device,
you can assign it a logical device name. If not, a logical device name gets assigned
automatically. You can explicitly associate one BCV to a standard device or a range of BCVs to
the working TimeFinder device group.

To associate BCV001 with device 001F, enter:

symbcvgDgName[sidSymmID]associatedev001FBCV001

Or to associate a range of devices to a device group, enter:

symbcvgDgName[sidSymmID]associatealldevRANGE087:08A

2.

Full Establish the pair

To obtain a copy of the data on a standard device, the BCV device of the pair must be
established.

To initiate a full establish on a specific standard/BCV device pair, target the standard device
and enter:
symmirgDgNamefullestablishDEV001

3.

Full Establish all pairs in a group

To initiate a full establish on all BCV pairs in a device group, enter:

symmirgDgNamefullestablish

4.

Verify the establish operation completes (Synchronized)

To verify when the BCV pairs reach the full copied or Synchronized state, use the verify
action as follows:
symmirgDgNamei30verify

With this interval and count, the message is displayed every 30 seconds until the pair is
established.

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Note: Incremental Establish and other options

After any standard/BCV pair has been fully established and subsequently split, to save
establish (resync) time, you can perform an establish operation omitting the -full option,
which updates the BCV copy with only the changed tracks that occurred on the standard
device during the elapsed BCV split time. To perform an incremental establish, omit the full
option, targeting the standard device of the pair:
symmirgDgNameestablishDEV001

Optionally, you can also collectively target all devices in a device group, composite group, or
defined devices in a device file:
symmirgDgNameestablish[full]
symmirgCgNameestablish[full]
symmirsidSymmIDfileFileNameestablish[full]

For more information about operations with TimeFinder/Mirror pairs, see the Solutions Enabler
Symmetrix TimeFinder Family CLI Product Guide.
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