Dell DR4000 - Manual (Page 12)

12 Seeding from a Dell™ DR Series System to an External Device | August 2014
4. To start the seeding process, enter the following command.
seed –start
The data copy begins and continues until all of the data from the device is completely read.
5. To monitor the seeding process, enter the following command.
seed --stats
The type of information in the output of the command, “seed –stats,” looks similar to the
following example.
If the seed status is ‘FINISHED,’ then the data has been completely read from the attached device
attached. The device can be removed after issuing the command, ‘seed –stop,’ and a new
device if present can be attached.
6. If you need to stop seeding, or the device needs to be removed, you can enter the following
command to stop all I/O from the seeding device.
seed –stop