Evacuating a Disk

This procedure moves the contents of the volumes on a disk to another disk. If a disk begins to fail, you can attempt to protect/preserve the volumes on that disk by evacuating the disk. You can also evacuate a disk if you plan to remove the disk or use the disk elsewhere.

To evacuate a disk

Select the disk that contains the objects and data to be moved to another disk.
Choose Disks > Evacuate (Selected menu) or Disk Evacuate (Command Launcher).

Complete the Evacuate Disk dialog box as follows:

Disk Name:	If the correct disk name is not already displayed in this field, type the disk's name or click Browse to select the disk.
Options	To specify the disk(s) to which the contents of the evacuated disk should be moved, click the Browse button next to the Target Disk(s) field and select a disk.

When you have provided all necessary information in the dialog box, click OK.

Notes:

This task requires a disk name.
The contents of a disk must be evacuated/moved to another disk(s) in the same disk group with sufficient free space.
If no target disk is specified, the Volume Manager will use an available disk(s) with sufficient free space.
If the disk being evacuated contains part of a mirrored, striped, or RAID-5 volume, the contents of the disk should not be moved to another disk containing a copy of the mirrored volume or part of the striped/RAID-5 volume.

Evacuating a Disk

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