Retiring a storage location monitor

To move the data from a retired storage location to other storage locations, you must trigger the Retire Storage process.

• Data at backup set level, as well as client libraries are moved to the Storage Group configured for that DS-Client.

• Data in account libraries will be moved to the Storage Group configured for that account.

• The public libraries are moved to the <DEFAULT> Storage Group.

• The Retire Storage process balances the amount of data moved across all the storage locations (belonging to the same Storage Group).

NOTE: The Retire Storage Monitor can be configured to check continuously for retired locations to trigger the data move automatically. To monitor for <RETIRED> storage locations continuously, open the Retire Storage Monitor window, and then click the Start button.

1. On the Setup menu, click Storage, and then click Retire Storage Monitor.

2. If DS-System was not configured to continuously monitor for <RETIRED> storage locations, you must click the Start button. The Retire Storage dialog box appears.

• Select how many simultaneous retirement processes to start and click OK.

• On N+1 DS-Systems, each node will start the selected number of processes.

3. The Retire Storage Monitor displays the progress of the data move.

• 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, meaning the retire storage location activity has finished.

• The distribution of the data will be balanced among the other storage locations using the Storage Fill levels, based on the DS-Client account's storage group configuration.

NOTE: Backup sets are always moved to storage locations within the same storage group (currently configured for the DS-Client account).

• If a process is interrupted, a time interval will appear in the Status column. DS-System will retry the move process after 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.

4. Once a storage location has been retired, you can delete it from the Extensible Storage Locations list. For instructions, see “Deleting an extensible storage location”.

NOTE: A <RETIRED> storage location may be reactivated from the Edit Storage Location dialog box. Select any other valid storage group (other than <RETIRED>) for that storage location.