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Regarding online volume copy, is a snapshot taken and then a copy is created from that snapshot?

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Yes, it is.
When you initiate a Copy Volume operation for a source volume, System Manager creates a snapshot image of the base volume and a copy relationship between the snapshot image of the base volume and a target volume.
 

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