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Status Submitted
Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect (Server)
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 24, 2025

RELATED IDEAS

Allow repair stg to use any storage pool from target replication server to recover data

Configuration:

Replica source

Storage is container pool only

Copy pool exist on tape

 

Replica target

Storage is container pool with tiering to tape or S3 after X days

Copy pool exist on tape

 

Scenario

When the source detects a bad file/object with a container, it will (hopefully) try to repair it from the target system if the object exists within the container pool.  But, when that particular file has been tierd to S3 or tape, it will not be recovered. At least, I have not found a way yet (except pointing client to replica target) to recover that object/file.

 

Solutions

Allow recovery/ingest from regular copy pool as well as from container copy pool.

Allow source to ingest the file/object from replication target when the object/file  exist on S3/tape/copypool to its own container pool.  Or, if needed, to a temporary disk/file pool just to make sure you can recover the object when needed.

Idea priority High

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