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pfoni
Level 3
6 years ago

Duplicate Jobs

Hi, I have a question that might not be easy to explain but I'll give it a try. I have some tapes from specific media sets that are shortly used because the backups spreaded amongst them and I would ...
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  • pkh's avatar
    pkh
    6 years ago
    No. You cannot do this with BE. When you duplicate a backup set, the entire backup set will be copied. There is no way to copy part of a backup set.
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pfoni
Level 3
Yes, but will it copy the entire X set (spanned across the two tapes) or just the part I select from one of the tapes? What I have is this: Beginning of Set X on tape 1, Ending of Set X on tape 2; I want to copy End of Set X on tape 2 to tape 3, without copying the Beginning of Set X on tape 1. Then, hopefully, I'll have Beginning of Set X on tape 1 and Ending of Set X on tape 3, so I can erase tape 2 safely. Does it make sense? Thanks!
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pkh
Moderator
6 years ago
No. You cannot do this with BE. When you duplicate a backup set, the entire backup set will be copied. There is no way to copy part of a backup set.