Thanks everyone for the help, I'll be doing it this morning, hopefully everything will go smooth.

Regards,

Jim
>
> From: John Clogg <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 2003/09/10 Wed PM 03:34:56 CDT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Mirrored disks
>
> Craig has it right, but I would suggest one improvement.  Create the temporary group on the target volume set.  Once you have built the replacement group on the target volume set, you can move the files there with a rename rather than a copy, which is much faster.
>
> Another approach would be to STORE the files, and restore them once the group was relocated.  That way you could preserve creation and modification dates, and creator ID.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Lalley [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 1:18 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Mirrored disks
>
>
> --- Jim Murphy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Good afternoon, I need to take some groups off of the mirrored drives, and
> > add (move) other groups onto the mirrored drives. Is it as simple to use
> > the altgroup command and specify the volume set (would attempt this only
> > after a backup)?
>
> It is simple but not that simple.
>
> What you need to do is create a temporary group.
>
> Copy files in the group you want to move to the temporary group.
>
> Delete the group
>
> Create the new group using
>
> NEWGROUP xxx;homevs=volume_set
> NEWGROUP xxx;onvs=volume_set
>
> Note that it is a two step command.
>
> Then copy the files from the temp group to the newgroup.
>
> HTH,
>
> -Craig
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