Deleting all of my copypool volumes could be a problem since I am only moving half of the tapepool data and have over 600 copypool tapes. I will need to find a better way to remove the data. Thanks for the answer about the data still being there, I wasn't sure how that would work.
-----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Andy Huebner Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 2:01 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] separation of copypool tapes When we rearranged our tape pools, we did a move node. We did not look for a way to move the tape because we where changing tape technology. Recreating the copy pool is easy; a backup storage pool to a new copy pool will work fine. Beware that the data will remain in the old copy pool, to fix this you will need to delete the copy pool volumes. We moved all of the nodes and deleted every volume in the copy pool (about 1000 tapes) and let backup storage pool create new volumes. (about 50 tapes) Andy Huebner -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Haberstroh, Debbie (IT) Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 1:02 PM To: ADSM-L@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: [ADSM-L] separation of copypool tapes We have a large database, 170Gb and are proposing to our customer that it be separated into multiple servers. Unfortunately when the system was designed, more than half of the nodes were directed to the same tapepool and copypool. The tapepool is collocated by node, the copypool is not. Before migration, I would like to setup new disk,tape and copy pools and split the nodes so they can be easily moved to the new servers since multiple servers cannot own the same tape (the library will be shared). It is easy enough to change the diskpool and write new data to the new tape/copypools, but I have a couple questions about the tapepool and copypool moves of the old data. Is there an easy way to move the tapepool tapes to a new tapepool or do I need to use the move nodedata commands. I can't rename them since not all of the nodes currently in a pool will be on the same server. I also don't see an update volume command that would allow me to change the pool name. Second, once I have the data on the new tapepool tapes, can I simply run a backup tapepool to the new copypool or do I need to do a move nodedata specifying the old copypool to new copypool. If I do a backup of the new tapepool, what happens to the data currently on the existing copypool, does it disappear or do I need to delete it. Thanks. Debbie Haberstroh Server Administration Northrop Grumman Information Technology Commercial, State & Local (CSL) This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.