Hi,

We are going to use tape silvering to setup the replication between two sites. According to the documentation you need at least the size of your data on the backup tape as savvol space at the destination side. Is this realy true? or is this just in the worst case when you are using a destination filesystem that was already used before?

When you setup replication and copy the data over the network the savvol at the destination is not filled. Is there also this smart option with tape silvering that it will recognize a "empty" file system and will not fill the savvol?

We did a tape silvering test with a small amount of data (< 1 GB) but this did not fill the savvol. We did not test with a file system and data > 20 GB to see if it realy allocated more savvol space during the restore.

If we realy need the savvol space to be the same as the data to be restored can you also specify why?

thanks