Or does the gui have special powers the API doesn't?

You can copy a volume from one pod to another in the GUI without having to unstretch and restretch. It is easy to do in through the SDK. The associated API call may be a little obscure. I'll see if I can find it

In order to move one or more volumes into PODS, you can either create a new unstretched POD _*or*_ – and this can be tricky – you need to unstretch an existing POD first. If a POD contains volumes that are actually being accessed on both sites, you need the hosts to stop using the volumes on the array that’s going to be deleted from the POD for a short while.

https://support.purestorage.com/FlashArray/PurityFA/Replication/ActiveCluster

That doesn't sound right. So, in this instance we are doing a failback. We bring the volume over from a different array (not connected to the pods), move that volume into our recovery pod. Stretch the Recovery Pod and copy the volume in that recovery pod (with overwrite) into another streched pod. Nothing has to be offline

It will be the `POST /volume` API call you need. In the `volume` parameter you specify `source` to be the volume copied from.

Don't know the exact syntax

cczinski lets talk at 11am on this. Simon will be on the zoom

ok, sounds good