To create a standalone copy of a volume, use the volume copy command. The copy can be made on the same aggregate as the original or on a different aggregate. When the copy is complete, it has no relation to its source volume; changes made to one volume are not propagated to the other. The copy is not automatically mounted; mount it by using the volume mount.

The following example creates a copy of a volume named src_builds on a virtual server named vs0. The copy is named builds and is located on an aggregate named aggr4. The copy operation runs as a background process.

node::> volume copy -vserver vs0 -volume src_builds
-destination-volume builds -destination-aggregate aggr4 -foreground false