Checking the status of a volume copy operation

Command to use to check status

You use the vol copy status command to check the status of volume copy operations.

This command displays the status for a specified volume copy operation. If you do not specify the operation number, the command displays the status of all volume copy operations in progress. In the command output, the operations are differentiated from one another with unique volume copy operation numbers.

Restrictions

Keep the following restrictions in mind when checking volume copy status:

If you start a volume copy operation from the filer console, you can enter the vol copy status command only through the rsh command when the copy operation is in progress. This is because you do not have access to the filer prompt on the console when Data ONTAP is copying the volume.
If data is being copied between two filers, you can enter the vol copy status command through a Remote Shell connection to either filer. The operation numbers displayed on the source filer and the destination filer are different because the reading and the writing are considered two different operations.

Checking operation status

To check the status of a volume copy operation in progress, complete the following step.

Step	Action
1	Enter the following command: *vol copy status [operation_number]* operation_number is the specific volume copy operation. Omit operation_number to display the status of all current volume copy operations. The operations are numbered from 0 through 3.

Sample status message from vol copy start command

The following example shows a vol copy start command that copies the vol0 volume to the vol1 volume on the same filer. When the operation is in progress, it displays the volume copy operation status.

filerA>vol copy start -S vol0 vol1

Copy Volume: vol0 on machine 127.0.0.1 to Volume: vol1

Reading the dump stream

VOLCOPY: Starting on volume 1.

This dump contains 257 blocks

10:04 pm : volcopy restore 1 : begun.

10:04 pm : volcopy restore 1 : 5 % done. Estimate 3 minutes 
remaining.

10:04 pm : volcopy restore 1 : 95% done. Estimate 1 minutes 
remaining.

Example of the vol copy status command using rsh

Before the prompt is displayed again, you can use the vol copy status command on a trusted host of the filer, as shown in the following example:

rsh filerA vol copy status

10:04 pm : volcopy dump 0 : 99 % done. Estimate 1 minutes remaining.

10:04 pm : volcopy restore 1 : 99 % done. Estimate 1 minutes 
remaining.

No operation 2 in progress.

No operation 3 in progress.

In the previous examples, volume copy operation 0, shown as volcopy dump 0 in the display, is for reading the data from the vol0 volume; volume copy operation 1, shown as volcopy restore 1 in the display, is for writing the data to the vol1 volume.