mismatched tapes

[__patrick__]

we have about 100 tapes from a library that were never labeled.  some backups had spanned across 2 tapes or 3 tapes.

how do we get these tapes to match up properly so we can restore the data?

[Ken_Putnam]

I don;t thhink there is any way to automate it, I HOPE someone else can help you

Long way would  be to create the appropriate media sets on the new system, inventory each tape and then drag to the appropriate media set.  You would then have to catalog each tape for the data to be ready to restore

If this was before/during installation of the new system, you could have migrated the catalogs, media sets, job logs, schedules etc.  But I don't think you want to try it on a running system

[__patrick__]

so all in all as long as each and every tape has been cataloged in to the new system we should be able to piece the data sets back together and get them labeled?

[Ken_Putnam]

Should be able to.  Would have been much slicker to migrate the old database to the new server  before installing/upgrading, but you should be OK this way

[__patrick__]

 i completely agree, unfortunately i was no where around when these changes took place, this is just a fancy inheritance