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Re: Moving data to a new storage pool, but still having volumes in old copy pool ...

2002-06-04 06:51:41
Subject: Re: Moving data to a new storage pool, but still having volumes in old copy pool ...
From: Remco Post <r.post AT SARA DOT NL>
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 12:49:17 +0200
Hi,

TSM does not limit the number of copies of data you have. So your 'old' copy
pool CopypoolA keeps the data until it is expired. For some files this will
be never. 'Delete volume **** discarddata=y' is the way to go. Possibly
followed by a 'del stg CopypoolA'.

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002 09:18:18 +0200
"PAC Brion Arnaud" <arnaud.brion AT PANALPINA DOT COM> wrote:

> Hi *SM'ers !
>
> Could someone give me an explanation on following topic : I had a storage
> pool called stgpoolA, wich had copy made daily on a copy storage pool
> called CopypoolA. For technical reasons I moved all data from stgpoolA to
> a new primary stgpool called stgpoolB, wich is having daily copies on copy
> storage pool CopypoolB. I expected my copystgpool CopypoolA to be empty
> after having been moving all original data to stgpoolB, due to the fact
> that this stgpool has a daily copy to a CopypoolB, therefore making old
> copy storage pool data obsolete. Problem is that several days after having
> completely transfering primary pool data to my new stgpool, I still have
> volumes belonging the old  copy storage pool. How is it possible ? Do I
> have doubled data in my 2 copy storage pools ? May I safely delete volumes
> belonging old copy storage pool ? Any help or explanation greatly
> appreciated ;-) Thanks in advance.
>
> Arnaud
>
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