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migration: Improve paragraph on migration Job resource.
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The old text was longer than necessary and had a couple of language
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Andre Noll authored and joergsteffens committed Dec 9, 2015
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migration to work properly, you should use Pools containing only Volumes of
the same Media Type for all migration jobs.

The migration job normally is either manually started or starts
from a Schedule much like a backup job. It searches
for a previous backup Job or Jobs that match the parameters you have
specified in the migration Job resource, primarily a
\linkResourceDirective{Dir}{Job}{Selection Type}.
Then for
each previous backup JobId found, the Migration Job will run a new Job which
copies the old Job data from the previous Volume to a new Volume in
the Migration Pool. It is possible that no prior Jobs are found for
migration, in which case, the Migration job will simply terminate having
done nothing, but normally at a minimum, three jobs are involved during a
migration:
A migration job can be started manually or from a Schedule, like
a backup job. It searches for existing backup Jobs that match the
parameters specified in the migration Job resource, primarily a
\linkResourceDirective{Dir}{Job}{Selection Type}. If no match was
found, the Migration job terminates without further action. Otherwise,
for each Job found this way, the Migration Job will run a new Job
which copies the Job data to a new Volume in the Migration Pool.

Normally three jobs are involved during a migration:

\begin{itemize}
\item The currently running Migration control Job. This is only
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