Thank you for your feedback about repairing storage pools and the upgrade process. You can repair deduplicated data extents in a directory-container storage pool by using the REPAIR STGPOOL command. This is a similar feature to the RESTORE STGPOOL command in DISK and SEQUENTIAL type storage pools. For more information about repairing storage pools, see: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSEQVQ_8.1.0/srv.solutions/t_msdisk_stgp_repair.html
With IBM Spectrum Protect Version 7.1.7 and later, you can protect directory-container storage pools by copying the data to container-copy storage pools, where the data is stored on tape volumes. For more information about copying directory-container storage pools to tape volumes, see https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEQVQ_8.1.0/srv.admin/t_contcp_stgpool_protect.html I hope this answers your question and thank you again for your comments. Deirdre O'Callaghan Information developer for IBM Spectrum Protect
