Retire Storage Locations
The Retire Storage Locations feature allows you to gracefully interrupt the use of the hardware in a storage location by not writing any new data to that storage location, as well as by allowing backup sets to be moved to other storage locations (in the same Storage Group).
1. You must have at least two extensible storage locations (in the same Storage Group) in order to be able to retire a storage location from that Storage Group.
2. Setup menu > Storage > Extensible Storage.
- NOTE: If you plan to retire the Primary Storage Location, first refer to the Knowledge Base article: "Retiring the DS-System Primary Storage Location (Backup Root)".
3. Highlight the Storage Location you want and click Retire. A confirmation popup appears. Click Yes to proceed.
4. The "Group" column changes to display <RETIRED>.
- The DS-System will be locked while it scans all the backup sets in the <RETIRED> Storage Location. This should not take more than a few minutes.
- No new backup data will be sent to this <RETIRED> Storage Location.
- New backup data is redirected to the other location(s) in this Storage Group or to other Storage Groups (if applicable).
- In order to trigger the data to be moved from the <RETIRED> storage location to other storage location(s), you must use the Retire Storage Monitor option.
- The Retire Storage Monitor can also be configured to continuously check for retired locations in order to automatically trigger the data move. (To continuously monitor for <RETIRED> Storage Locations, open the Retire Storage Monitor window and press the "Start" button.)
6. Setup menu > Storage > Retire Storage Monitor.
7. The Retire Storage Monitor screen appears.
- F1 Help: See "Retire Storage Monitor".
8. If DS-System was not configured to continuously monitor for <RETIRED> locations, you must select the "Start" button. The Retire Storage Process screen appears.
- F1 Help: See "Retire Storage".
- Select how many simultaneous retirement processes to start.
- On N+1 DS-Systems, each node will start the selected number of processes.
9. The Retire Storage Monitor displays the progress of the data move.
10. The DS-System processes each backup set by moving it from the Retired Storage Location to any of the other Storage Locations.
- As backup sets are moved, they will disappear from this list until it is completely empty (Retire Storage Location activity has finished).
- The distribution of the data will be balanced (using the Storage Fill levels) among the other Storage Location(s), based on the corresponding DS-Client's current Storage Group configuration.
- If a process is interrupted, a time interval will appear in the "Status" column. DS-System will retry the move process after five (5) minutes. To retry processing the item(s) immediately, click Stop and then click Start. The move process can be interrupted if an activity lock exists on any backup set that needs to be moved.
11. Once a Storage Location has been retired, you can delete it from the Extensible Storage Locations list.
- See "Delete Storage Locations".
- A <RETIRED> storage location may be reactivated from the Edit Storage Location screen. Select any other valid Storage Group (Other than <RETIRED>) for that Storage Location.
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