Migrating copy groups to snapshot groups, Scheduling and managing tasks, About tasks – HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Software User Manual

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4.

Specify Pair management server for snapshot group.

5.

Click OK.

6.

Check the displayed settings and then click Confirm.

7.

Click Close when the completion dialog is displayed.

8.

The pair management server displayed in the

storage-system-name

subwindow is updated.

Related topics

• About snapshot groups

, page 169

• Creating a snapshot group

, page 171

Migrating copy groups to snapshot groups

The following is an outline for migrating copy groups to snapshot groups:

•

Save the existing data using an appropriate backup product.

•

Delete the existing copy groups.

•

Follow the procedure described in “

Creating a snapshot group

” on page 171.

NOTE:

Any existing backup operations that use scripts with RAID Manager commands must be revised to
use

raidcom

commands.

Related topics

• About snapshot groups

, page 169

• Creating a snapshot group

, page 171

Scheduling and managing tasks

This module discusses information about tasks and procedures for scheduling and managing tasks:

• About tasks

, page 173

• About task statuses

, page 175

• About task types (open systems)

, page 175

• About task types (mainframe systems)

, page 176

• Scheduling tasks

, page 177

• Viewing a list of tasks

, page 180

• Canceling tasks

, page 180

• Deleting tasks

, page 181

About tasks

A task is a type of operation, such as changing the status of a copy pair or creating a copy pair or
copy group based on a specified schedule. Tasks are managed based on copy groups as functional
units. Multiple tasks created for the same copy group using the Pair Configuration Wizard are
collectively known as associated tasks.

There are three methods to execute operations defined in a task:

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