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Tivoli Space Manager for UNIX Using the Hierarchical Storage Management Clients

Migrate Selected Files

To migrate selected files from your local file system to storage:

  1. Click Selective Migration in the Hierarchical Storage Management window. The Selective Migration window displays.
  2. Click Select File Systems in the Selective Migration window to select a file system.
  3. Click List Selection in the Selective Migration window to view a list of the selected files.
  4. Select the file systems that contain the files you want to migrate in the Select File Systems for Selective Migration window.
  5. Click the Select button. A directory tree of the file systems that you selected displays in the Selective Migration window.
  6. Select the files that you want to migrate using one of the following methods:
  7. Click Migrate. The Selective Migration Status window displays. To stop migrating files, click Stop at the bottom of the window. If you click Stop, any files already migrated remain migrated.

    If you set the tapeprompt option to yes in your dsm.opt file, and the destination for a migrated file is a storage pool that consists of removable media, such as tape, you are prompted to wait for the medium to mount, or to skip the file. See "Assign Management Classes to your Files" for information about management class attributes.

  8. Click OK to close the Information Dialog box after you receive confirmation that all files migrated successfully.
  9. Click Return to return to the Selective Migration window.
  10. Click Cancel to close the Selective Migration window.

Start Selective Migration With the dsmmigrate Command

To migrate one or more files to storage from the command line, use the dsmmigrate command. For example, to migrate a file named proj1rpt from the /home/proja directory, enter:

   dsmmigrate /home/proja/proj1rpt

To display information about your migrated files, use the -detail parameter with the dsmmigrate command.

To migrate files in any subdirectory below the specified directory that matches the file specification, use the -recursive parameter. For example, to migrate all files in a directory named /migfs2/test/dir1 and in all of its subdirectories, enter:

   dsmmigrate -R /migfs2/test/dir1

See dsmmigrate for more information about this command.


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