Morning all,

Sun EBS 7.4.4, Solaris 10 Sparc and x64 (still working out the EMC migration 
there, its been slow).

Until then, I'm preparing to migrate off our old disk, and (for now) the new 
array is on a server that's not attached to the correct library for offsite 
tapes.  This will be corrected in a later migration stage, but I need the 
drives on the old servers, pushing most of the older backups to tape (I'm going 
to a 'smaller' disk as well).

I've not done a remote clone like this before, so seeking a quick sanity check.

1) I believe cloning can still occur from the new disk to our target library if 
1) the offsite pool settings restrict the drives to this library, and 2) one or 
more SNs on the library are in this system's clone storage node list 
(preferably after himself).

2) I'm also planning to use this opportunity to place another copy of some 
longer-term backups on the short-term offsite tape.  For this, we need to make 
sure that only this copy will have the retention of the target pool (10 days) 
instead of the original backup (2-3 years, depending on the backup).  It looks 
like I can just force the retention at pool level, but want to be sure that 
this is working in 7.4 first.  :)


Much Appreciated,
--TSK

Tim Kimball
http://sungak.net