Consolidating tapes using bpduplicate
I was wondering if someone had already written a script to consolidate partially used tapes onto another tape.
I have instances where only a small portion of a tape was used yet the expiration dat...
You cannot use bpduplicate to specify one media id as source and another as destination.
The destination can only be specified as a Storage Unit and a pool.
So, to ensure that one destination tape is used until full, create a new pool to be specified as destination and add MPF (Maximum number of partially full media) attribute for the pool as 1.
If you do not have a Scratch pool, add Unassigned media to this pool.
