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>.

5. Close this screen.

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".

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.

11. Once a Storage Location has been retired, you can delete it from the Extensible Storage Locations list.



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