You don’t actually copy the data to a BCV manually. Here is the command:  convert meta SymDevName config=MetaOption [, stripe_size=MetaStripeSize>[cyl]], [, protect_data=[TRUE|FALSE], ;   So you need to create a BCV which is of same configuration as the current meta and specify it in the command. On issuing the command a clone session is created to protect the data.  Note that if you are using a thin BCV, the BCV should be persistently allocated and preallocated for this to work
How to change device config from concatenated to striped META on VMAX  Do we lose any data while converting from Striped to Concatenated ?
How to change device config from concatenated to striped META