Copy Managers - How To
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Detect and Configure
a Hardware Copy Manager
Before You Begin
This feature requires a Feature License to be available in the CommServe® Server.
Review general license requirements included in
License Administration. Also,
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instructions on how to view the license information.
To detect and configure a Hardware Copy Manager:
-
Display
the Library and Drive Configuration window.
- In the Library and Drive Configuration window, click the
Copy Manager tab.
- Right click Copy Managers and choose Detect/Config Devices.
- In the Detect Library Window, select SCSI Devices, and
click OK.
- You will be informed to right click a device to configure it. Click OK
to continue.
- Right click the detected copy manager and click Configure.
- The device will be displayed in the Copy Manager tab.
- Click OK.
- From the Library and Drive Configuration window, click the
General tab to display the libraries and drives.
- Expand a library and then a master drive pool to display the drive pool
for which you want to provide a copy manager. Right-click the drive pool, and
then click Properties.
- From the Drive Pool Properties window, find the
Copy
Manager field and select the name of the appropriate hardware copy manager
(router) from the corresponding drop-down list.
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Be sure the
hardware copy manager you select can communicate with the source volume to be
backed up as well as the library. |
- Repeat the previous steps for each drive pool that you want to associate
with a hardware copy manager.
- Once one or more copy managers are configured, their names appear within a
drop-down list in the Drive Pool Properties window.
- For each drive in that pool, right click and select Properties.
Type the WWN of the hardware copy manager, and click OK.
- From the Start menu, select Exit.
This task is now complete.
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When
creating Storage Policies, be sure to specify a library and drive that you
have configured using this procedure, or your backups will fail. |
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