Be careful with this suggestion - if there is nothing "special" about this
node, then this will work.  But deleting all of the old files will delete
Archived files, as well as any other copies of old files that no longer exist
("Only copies" that might be kept for longer periods of time).  You may wish
to wait a while before deleting the original backups.

Jerry Lawson
jlawson AT thehartford DOT com


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Subject: Re: Moving Node Data
Author:  INTERNET.OWNERAD at SNADGATE
Date:    6/9/97 12:48 PM


I believe the easiest way by far is simply to use Admin to rename the node
you wish to move from "nodename" to "nodename-old", and leave the nodename
in your dsm.opt unchanged. This means you'll do a full backup the next time
you do an incremental, but, at our shop, that's more efficient than doing a
tape-to-tape copy. Then after a week or so, you can delete the file-spaces
for "nodename-old", and then "nodename-old" itself.



Bob Siska
National Computer Systems
Iowa City IA
Bob_Siska AT ncs DOT com
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From: owner-adsm-l
To: ADSM-L
Subject: Re: Moving Node Data
Date: Monday, June 09, 1997 8:46AM

     The only way I can think of is to do an export for the node.  Delete
     all the data for it, and then import it.  This is of course time
     consuming at best.  The ? is what is the point in moving a node at a
     time from non-collated to non-collated.  Even if you do get all the
     data together for a node, it's not going to stay that way.

     Al Barth


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Subject: Moving Node Data
Author:  David Ong <david AT BABYONG.NSC DOT COM> at ~Internet
Date:    6/6/97 2:04 PM


Hello ADSMers,
We currently have a non-collocated 3490 tape storage pool which is used to
store data for most of our nodes. Now we would like to use a new
non-collocated 3590 tape pool for a select group of nodes. I know that
 changing the 'destination' parameter in the copygroup will send new backup
data to the 3590 pool. The question I have is how to move the existing
backup data that is on the 3490 tape pool to the new 3590 pool. Are there
any 'undocumented' commands that will allow me to move data for a specific
node on a volume?
By the way, our ADSM server is 2.1.0.9 running on AIX 4.1.4.

Thanks in advance.

Have a nice day or whatever's left of it.

David Ong
National Semiconductor Corp.