Changing source pool assignments of elements

You can change the source pool assignment of an element to move it to a new pool.

Because all newly created elements inherit the pool assignments of their parent directories, all elements in a VOB use the default storage pools unless you create new pools and reassign elements to them. On hosts running Linux or the UNIX system, you might be able to combine remote pools with pool reassignments to better manage storage consumption. For example, if a VOB’s storage directory is being filled up with large versioned DOs, you might want to create a new DO pool on a remote volume and reassign those elements to the new pool.

You can use the chpool command to change the source and cleartext pools associated with an element. Changing the source pool of a file element moves all its data containers to the new pool. Changing the source pool of a directory element assigns all new elements created within that directory to the new source pool. Existing elements remain in their current pools.