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soolean
Level 4
8 months ago

LTO 7 media, restore LTO 8 drive

Hello. I want to restore a backup on LTO 7 media from LTO8 drive, but the process does not start.   08.Ara.2023 14:40:52 - awaiting resource BNV420. A pending request has been generated for this ...
  • quebek's avatar
    8 months ago

    Hey

    make sure that your storage unit matches tape density - both should be of the same type, it hcart....

    if lto7 tape is not of this type run the following: 

    vmchange -m BNV420 -new_mt hcart2 

    where hcart2 is your LTO8 storage unit density type.