Restoring Safeguarded Copy backups to Remote Copy source volumes

You can integrate Safeguarded Copy with any of your existing remote copy sessions and solutions. These remote copy sessions can be Metro Mirror - Global Mirror sessions, or three-site sessions such Metro Mirror - Global Mirror and Global Mirror multiple-target sessions.

1. Follow these steps to associate a Safeguarded Copy session to a remote copy session.
   1. From the Session Overview panel click the Safeguarded Copy session that you want to associate to another session.
   2. On the Session Details panel for the Safeguarded Copy session, click Session Actions >View/Modify>Session Associations>Add/Update Associations. The Add/Update association box is displayed.
   3. Select a value for each of the following questions.
      1. Which session should be associated to this Safeguarded Copy session? - select the remote copy session that is being used to create the Safeguarded Copy backups.
      2. Which role pair in the session selected above should be associated to the session? - select the role pair in the session that is selected in step i, where the target of role pair contains the H1 volumes of the Safeguarded Copy session.
      3. Which role in the selected role pair is the H1 volume in the Safeguarded Copy session? - select the role in the role pair that is selected in step ii, which contains the same volumes as the H1 volumes of the Safeguarded Copy session.
      4. Which role in the selected role pair do you want to restore from a Safeguarded backup? - select the role in the role pair that is selected in step ii, which contains the volumes that are restored when the Restore Backup command is issued.
         Note: This must be a different role than the role selected in step iii and must be the source of the remote copy relationship.
   4. Click OK.
      Note: After the Safeguarded Copy session is associated to another session, the server compares the H1 volumes of the Safeguarded Copy session to the volumes in the role selected in step iii of the associated session. If the volumes do not match, both the Safeguarded Copy session and the associated session display a warning message.

   After a session is associated to the Safeguarded Copy session, any recoverable backup on the Safeguarded Copy session can be used to restore the source volume on the associated session.
2. Follow these steps to restore a backup to the volumes in the selected role on the associated session.
   1. Run the Recover Backup command and in the Recover Backup dialog box, choose backup you want to recover. This recovers the selected backup to the R1 volumes in the session.
   2. Validate the R1 volumes.
      Note: It is important to validate the data on the R1 volumes before you restore the production volumes in the associated session. Ensure that the backup is not corrupted and contains the data that is to be restored on the associated session.
   3. Ensure that the associated role pair in the associated session is in a Suspended or Target Available state.
      Note: For more information on how to suspend a role pair, see commands for relevant session types under the Sessions command section.
   4. Run the Restore Backup command. The Restore Backup command appears only in the Target Available state after a Recover Backup command is run.
   The Restore Backup command does not prompt for a backup but uses the backup that is specified on the Recover Backup command. After running the Restore Backup command, the session goes into a Restoring state. Progress messages are displayed on the session which indicate the steps that are being run throughout the restore process. Data is recovered to R1 and then replicated from R1 back to the selected role in the associated role pair on the associated session.
   The session automatically goes back to a Prepared state after the restore is complete. The R1 volumes no longer have a valid copy of the backup data when the restore is complete. All data from the backup is now on the selected role in the associated role pair on the associated session.