On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:50:29PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 10:38:10PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> >>>If 'volutil getvolumelist' lists a volume, then the volume exists and
> >>>should be purgeable with 'volutil purge <volumeid> <replicaname>'.
> >>>
> >>>Both the volumeid and the replicaname do have to match. And the replica
> >>>name is not the same as the replicated volume name, but has a '.0', or
> >>>'.1' appended.
> >>>
> >>Ok, I will try - but what is the volumeid (i.e., where can I find it?)
> >
> >   # volutil getvolumelist
> >   W<volumename> I<volumeid> H1 ...
> >
> Thanks - and that does the trick. Some debugging shows:
> 
> volumes=`echo "$volumelist" | awk '$8 ~/^W'$REP'$/ { print $2 }'`
> 
> in purgevol_rep returns an emptyp "$volumes" - although that command is 
> called. Could you check the commands before that line? Actually $REP 
> contains the volume-id (not the name!)- is that correct???

That should be correct, the 8th field in the volumelist has the id of
the read-write copy the volume was derived from, it is identical to the
volume id on the r/w replica itself. This way we can find any backups or
clones that belong to the original r/w replica.

Wvmm:u.jaharkes.1 Ic900007a Hc9 P/vicepa m0 M0 U3c01 Wc900007a C41386f7a D41386f7a B4190596b Aca6
						     ^^^^^^^^^
Bvmm:u.jaharkes.1.backup Ic90001c5 Hc9 P/vicepa m0 M0 U3bc0 Wc900007a C413a597c D413a597c B0 A0
							    ^^^^^^^^^

Jan