Enabling automatic overflow recovery for a basic disk pool

If a basic disk pool fills up and the data in the basic disk pool overflows into the system disk pool, the basic disk pool is said to be in an overflow state. If you enable automatic overflow recovery, you can recover the overflow data to the system disk pool by restarting your system.

If you created sufficient space in the basic disk pool, the system copies the overflow data to the disk pool from the system disk pool. If automatic overflow recovery is disabled, you must manually restart your system to the dedicated service tools (DST) mode and recover the overflow data using DST from the command prompt.

To enable automatic overflow recovery using your IBM® Navigator for i, follow these steps:

  1. Select Configuration and Service from your IBM Navigator for i.
  2. Select Disk Pools.
  3. Select the disk pools that you want to enable automatic overflow recovery for.
  4. Right-click the disk pool that you want to enable overflow recovery for and select Enable Overflow Recovery.
  5. Follow the instructions on the dialog box that is displayed.