Adding additional mirrors to an existing LS mirror set

[rigid lichen]

Is there a way to add additional mirrors to an existing set of LS mirrors? For example, I have two LS mirrors of a root volume setup, and I want to add two additional mirrors on a different HA pair. But, when I add them and run the snapmirror initialize-ls-set, it gives me an error that the command failed because the first two mirrors have already been initialized.

The only one I can get it to work is to completely remove all the existing LS relationships and mirror volumes and set everything up from scratch.

This is OnTap 9.8P18.

[valid osprey]

When adding additional LS mirrors to an already existing setup, use snapmirror initialize, not snapmirror initialize-ls-set. Yes, it is confusing.

I can't find it on docs.netapp.com, but if you 'man snapmirror initilize-ls-set' there is a mention of "Use the snapmirror initialize command to add and initialize a new destination volume to an existing set of load-sharing mirrors."

[rigid lichen]

Thank you, @valid osprey! That's exactly what I was looking for. I never would have thought to use a regular initialize, but it does indeed work.

Now, how the heck am I going to automate that!?!? 😛