Re: Where do I learn about SAN backup? -- MIDRANGE-L

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Well, prior to this whole Flash Copy concept my plan was to save to a save file on an iASP (a bunch of scratch disks with no RAID), copy that across virtual Ethernet to a matching iASP on the other partition and then copy to physical tape there. That's why I had been trying to find out about switching an iASP from one partition to the other - it would remove the step of copying a few TB of save files from one partition to the other.

Flash copy is the simplest because it lets you keep using the original copy while you back up the copy. I believe in 7.2 there is capability to copy disks and find them and then vary on even if the disks were just moved from another machine but that's not what you are after.

There have been Switchable ASPs for some time and for a while that depended on particular hardware in the machine that no longer exists. (HSL loops etc) Again here though it was one partition OR another could use it not both.

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