> Can I split a mirror on Solaris

There are different ways of creating a mirror on Solaris, and the
answer depends on how you do it. 

, back up the mirror member, and then do
> an incremental copy of the changed blocks when re-establishing the
> mirror?  My Solaris admin is saying that I need to do a full mirror copy
> and that's going to be painful.

SDS/LVM and non-flashsnap VxVM do not support incremental
re-establishes.  Flashsnap licensed VxVM does.

Of course, both UFS and VxFS support temporary, consistent "snapshots"
at the filesystem rather than disk level.  You might prefer to backup a
filesystem snapshot rather than mess with the disk mirroring stuff.

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