Effects on system tables

The mode option changes the status column in sysdevices to indicate that mirroring has been disabled (see Chapter 7, “Initializing Database Devices,” in the System Administration Guide: Volume 1). Its effects on the phyname and mirrorname columns in sysdevices depend on the side argument also, as shown in Table 2-1.

Table 2-1: Effects of mode and side options to the disk mirror command

side

primary

secondary

mode

remove

Name in mirrorname moved to phyname and mirrorname set to null; status changed

Name in mirrorname removed; status changed

retain

Names unchanged; status changed to indicate which device is being deactivated

This example suspends the operation of the primary device:

disk unmirror 
  name = "tranlog", 
  side = "primary"