A system and method creates a writable clone of a read-only volume. A base snapshot is generated on a source volume on a source storage system and is duplicated as a read-only base snapshot replica on a target volume on a destination storage system. A copy ("clone) is then substantially instantaneously created from the read-only base snap-shot replica, thereby creating a writable clone of a read-only volume.

 
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