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The manual consists of the following chapters and appendix:

Chapter Contents
Introduction to Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS
Introduces Volume Shadowing for OpenVMS and describes how it provides high data availability.
Configuring Your System for High Data Availability
Illustrates various shadow set configurations.
Preparing to Use Volume Shadowing
Describes how to set up a volume shadowing environment, including information about setting shadowing system parameters, booting a system that uses a system disk in a shadow set, and booting satellite nodes from a shadowed system disk.
Creating and Managing Shadow Sets Using DCL Commands
Describes how to use DCL commands to create, mount, dismount, and dissolve shadow sets. The chapter also describes how to use the SHOW DEVICES command, the System Dump Analyzer, and the F$GETDVI lexical function to obtain information about shadow sets on a running system.
Creating and Managing Shadow Sets with System Services
Describes how to use the OpenVMS system services in a user-written program to create and manage shadow sets. The chapter also describes how to use the $GETDVI system service to obtain information about shadow sets.
Ensuring Shadow Set Consistency
Describes how the copy and merge operations maintain data consistency and availability during changes in shadow set membership.
Using Minicopy for Backing Up Data (Alpha)
Describes how the minicopy operation can be used, in a carefully controlled environment, to shorten the time required for a member to be returned to a shadow set. Typically, the member is removed for backing up data.
Performing System Management Tasks on Shadowed Systems
Describes how to perform system management tasks on shadow sets, including performing backup and upgrade operations, performing shadowing operations in OpenVMS Cluster systems, and handling crash dumps on the shadow set.
Performance Information for Volume Shadowing
Includes helpful information and guidelines for achieving better performance from shadow sets.
Messages
Lists messages related to volume shadowing that are returned by the Mount utility and the VOLPROC, shadow server, and OPCOM facilities.
Glossary
Lists the terms used in this manual with definitions.


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