IBM DS3000 manual

You will then be directed to the Create Logical Drive Copies – Select Target Logical Drive. Select the logical drive that will be the target copy and click Next.

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Note: Starting the copy process will overwrite all existing data on the target logical drive as well as place the source logical drive READ-ONLY mode during the copy. Therefore, best practice is to copy a FlashCopy image, which will maintain access to the production data.

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The Create Logical Drive Copies – Set Copy Priority window will then appear which gives you the ability to change the copy priority to designate how the disk system resources should be used when creating the copy. This enables your customers to minimize either copy time or the overall I/O impact to their disk system

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