Which jobs are running or queued? If FlexProtect(LIN) or Smartpools don't show up, start by hand.

-- Peter

No Jobs are running or are queued. I have started Flexprotect by hand.

We will wait and see after the weekend for the results.

Regards Gerard 

Gents, thanks for the update we don’t have a license so I have started SetProtectPlus.

Gerard

FlexProtect isn't the correct job, it's job is re-protecting data in the event of a failure.  SmartPools is what would change the protection level if you changed the cluster.  Be sure you changed it in the right place, however.  That would be in the default file pool policy.

~Chris

Peter, SetProtectPlus ran for 10 days and is finished.

Is there a way to check if the new setting really is reflected on the whole cluster?

Gerard

You can spot check with the cli.

ritstor-1# isi get -Dd /ifs | grep Protection

*      Protection    False

*  Protection Policy:  default

*  Current Protection: 8x

*  Future Protection:  0x

*  Protection attributes:  active

*  Protection Policy:  default

"isi get" is the tool of choice for this kind of inspection; practically one can take some samples rather than checking the whole cluster. After SetProtectPlus or other jobs have finished successfully, one basically should trust it...

-- Peter

In contrast to the first cluster, the second shows a lot of files and directories with the status reprotect

The SetProtectPlus job on this cluster ran for a shorter period of time but also finished successfully.

Maybe start the job again?  

reprotect may sound scary, but is not -- repair status is scary...

reprotect simply means full protection is there as requested, but usually not in the most efficient way (using less nodes than available).

You would probably have noticed if there had been a node reboot during the SetProtectPlus run. Something I would check is wether the reprotect files have been modified (by regular client writes, check mtime) while SetProtectPlus was running.

-- Peter