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>You probably "can", but I wouldn't recommend it. During one of the
>BrainShare sessions I was at last year, the presenter explicitly
>recommended removing the mirror, then running vrepair, and re-mirroring the
>disks once everything was ok.
>
>>2.  Can/should we ever do restores while the volumes are re-mirroring?
>>Again, common sense says "No", but the vendor said it was OK.
>
>He didn't address this, but I'd say that it was the same as Vrepair. Yeah,
>you probably *can* do it, but I don't think it's a good idea.
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>
>Nothing official (printed) that I know of, but from SI201A Abend Recovery,
>BrainShare '95, this is what I wrote in my notes:
>
>When running VREPAIR, recommend breaking the mirror on mirrored/duplexed
>  volumes. Fix one set, then re-mirror. Can use the broken mirror to try
>  other recovery options if needed. Also halves the disk i/o required, so
>  should run faster. Remirror after repair.
>
>The presenter was Dana Henriksen (I think that's spelled right). Also
>according to my notes, he is the original programmer for VREPAIR.NLM.
>Though he is no longer responsible for its maintenance, I tend to take his
>word for it when he talks about how it works and how it should be used.
>
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>David Gersic                                           dgersic@niu.edu
>Systems Programmer
>Northern Illinois University
>

David,

Thanks for the info.  This is *exactly* what I was looking for.  Our
problems are either that we did what we said we did and we shouldn't
have, or that we didn't run VREPAIR enough.

Thanks to the others who have responded as well.  I appreciate very
much your experience and insight.

Regards,

Tom Kustner
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