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5.16.1 Selecting volumes for remote copy
In this section, we discuss some considerations regarding which volumes to include in the
remote copy solution.
Volume level copying
XRC copies the entire contents of a volume. As a result, all data sets on a primary volume are
copied to the secondary volume. This support is for all data types, independent of the
applications.
What data should be copied?
Before you start up your XRC environment, you have to identify the data you will want to
mirror onto the secondary site. This may differ depending on whether you use XRC for data or
workload migration, or for a disaster recovery solution.
In the remainder of this section, we are assuming that XRC is used for Disaster Re ...