Hi ADSMers,

My message on the 19/12/1998 didn't get any response regarding the integrety of 
copypools when a primary volume is unavailable during the copy process and made 
available again. ADSM ignores the volume that was unavailable when I start 
another copy process. I understood that any interupted process would continue 
and pickup the uncopied portion of the primary storage pool. The volume was not 
copied as I observed the process wich finished immediatly without any error 
messages. The amount of data on the tape would have taken at least 10 minutes 
to copy.

Is there a command to verify the complete copy of a primary storage pool 
without going through a disaster recovery procedure ?
I created a new copypool and copied the primary tape pool to the new copypool 
to be sure. Comparing the capacity of the old copypool and the new copypool 
don't match when I add the volumes reported capacitys. Could this may be due to 
the compression on the tapedrives or are the figures in volumes not precise ? I 
have a Spectralogic tape library with two AIT drives and creating this new 
copypool of 150GB took around 10 hours. We are not looking forward to have to 
do this when we have all our clients connected with a capacity of around the 
500 to 800GB.
Did anybody else have this experience ?
How can I consolidate the copypool ?

Thanks you for any comments on this problem.
I can avoid this problem by checking the volume status before a copy procedure 
but this could be a nasty gotcha.


Leo Humar
LCS Pty Ltd
lhumar AT vic.bigpond.net DOT au