Duplicate LTO Tape Backup Exec 2010

[thegrads]

Hi Guys, am trying to duplicate a tape for off site storage. Problem is my backup sets span across 2 tapes as per image below.
Am I better to use other duplication software?

Thanks, Adam.

[pkh · Accepted solution]

Unless you have 2 tape drives, you would have to duplicate the backup set to disk and then duplicate it to tape again.  When you duplicate to disk, the backup set on the 2 tapes would be joined together.  If you have 2 tape drives, then BE will take care of the 2 parts of the backup set for you when you duplicate from one tape drive to another.

You should ALWAYS use BE to duplicate your backup sets, not another software.

[thegrads]

Hi there, when selecting the backups sets do I select both the one media and the other that spans across two tapes? ie;

LTO5 &

LTO5, LTO6

or just the one media and Backup Exec will know.

Thanks, Adam.

[pkh]

Just select one

[thegrads]

Thankyou so much.