On Friday, 26. September 2008 08:50:56 Howie Jock wrote:
> Hi Sid
>
> If you change the 'Enabled' status of the AFT devices in your old
> appliance to 'Service' you can read from them but they will not be
> written to, allowing you to edit your relevant Staging policy and select
> 'stage all save sets' to write them out to volumes in the policy's
> destination pool

Nope, 
service mode will only allow the device to complete an ongoing operation and 
then disable it. The hing to do is to set the Readonly attribute for the 
volume(s) on that device and then stage them

Best
Dag

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