Someone not following your naming convention? We’ve got two filers (netapp1 and netapp2) and I want to rename a SnapMirror target to follow our new naming convention. We’re going to prefix the volume ‘sampleTarget’ with ‘st_’ to designate it as a SnapMirror Target.
1. Login to the NetApp via SSH that has the SnapMirror Target
2. Open the ‘etc$’ share on the NetApp that has the SnapMirror Target (\\<FILER>\etc$)
3. Open ‘snapmirror.conf’ on the ‘etc$’ share in Notepad
4. Run ‘snapmirror status’ and make sure no mirror operations are currently running
netapp2> snapmirror status Snapmirror is on. Source Destination State Lag Status netapp1:sampleTarget netapp2:sampleTarget Snapmirrored 00:06:42 Idle
5. Run ‘snapmirror off’ to disable SnapMirror
netapp2> snapmirror off
6. Rename the volume
netapp2> vol rename <ORIGINAL NAME> <NEW NAME> Example netapp2> vol rename sampleTarget st_sampleTaget
7. In the ‘snapmirror.conf’ file update the configuration to reflect the rename you just performed
8. Save and close ‘snapmirror.conf’
9. Restart SnapMirror
netapp2> snapmirror on
10. Manually update the SnapMirror to verify it’s working
netapp2> snapmirror update <TARGET> Example netapp2> snapmirror update netapp2:st_sampleTarget netapp2> snapmirror status Snapmirror is on. Source Destination State Lag Status netapp1:sampleTarget netapp2:st_sampleTarget Snapmirrored 00:00:02 Idle
11. If you backup your SnapMirror volumes using NDMP you’ll need to update your backup jobs to reflect the new volume name