Copyback/Copybackless; Figure 16 Copyback - Fujitsu ETERNUS AF250 Design Manual

1. Function
Data Protection

Copyback/Copybackless

A Copyback process copies data in a hot spare to the new drive that is used to replace the failed drive.

Figure 16 Copyback

Failed drive
Copyback
Copyback speed
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Giving priority to Copyback over host access can be specified. By setting a higher Rebuild priority, the per-
formance of Copyback operations may improve.
However, it should be noted that when the priority is high and a Copyback operation is performed for a
RAID group, the performance (throughput) of this RAID group may be reduced.
If copybackless is enabled, the drives that are registered in the hot spare become part of the RAID group config-
uration drives after a rebuild or a redundant copy is completed for the hot spare.
The failed drive is disconnected from the RAID group configuration drives and then registered as a hot spare.
Copyback is not performed for the data even if the failed drive is replaced by a new drive because the failed drive
is used as a hot spare.
A copyback operation is performed when the following conditions for the copybackless target drive (or hot
spare) and the failed drive are the same.
Drive type (SSD or SED SSD)
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Capacity
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RAID5 (Redundant)
RAID5 (Redundant)
RAID5 (Redundant)
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After rebuilding has been completed,
replaces the failed drive with the new drive.
After replacing has been completed,
copies the data from the hot spare
to the new drive.
Hot spare
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