IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, Version 7.1

Data movement within the same storage pool

Moving files from one volume to other volumes in the same storage pool provides a number of benefits.

Moving files from one volume to other volumes in the same storage pool is useful:

When you want to free up all space on a volume so that it can be deleted from the Tivoli® Storage Manager server
See Deleting storage pool volumes for information about deleting backed-up, archived, or space-managed data before you delete a volume from a storage pool.
When you need to salvage readable files from a volume that has been damaged
When you want to delete cached files from disk volumes
If you want to force the removal of cached files, you can delete them by moving data from one volume to another volume. During the move process, the server deletes cached files remaining on disk volumes.

If you move data between volumes within the same storage pool and you run out of space in the storage pool before all data is moved from the target volume, then you cannot move all the data from the target volume. In this case, consider moving data to available space in another storage pool as described in Data movement to a different storage pool.

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