Gene, I know what they do, how they are similar and different.
Move Data moves data from a tape.
Move Node Data moves the data for a node on whatever tape it resides on to
another tape in another (or the same) storage pool. (Achieving something
similar to a node collocation.)

   - My question is, does the mechanism of moving the objects work the same
   as reclamation and move data (or not, as the documentation hints at).
   - Do the source volumes have to be onsite?
      - Does it work more like "Restore Volume" run for a primary pool
      volume, where TSM generates a listing of CopyPool media that is
required to
      perform the restore?


On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Shaffer, Gene <gene.shaffer AT aurora DOT 
org>wrote:

> Hi George;
>
> The short story - 'move data' to get files off a specific tape volume
>                        'move nodedata' to consolidate files for a node to
> fewer volumes
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf 
> Of
> George Huebschman
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2012 1:30 PM
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> Subject: [ADSM-L] Move NodeData
>
> I think I have misunderstood how the command "move nodedata" works in
> regard to offsite media.
> I had believed that it functioned in the same way that reclamation and
> move data operations worked, utilizing onsite media to write new offsite
> media.
>