05-14-2016 10:12 AM
Hi. I'm running a 5230 appliance that's connected to a tape library. And I need to duplicate images from approximately 700 tapes to another set of tapes (in the same environment). I know this can be done via the NB gui in the catalog section, but is there an easier way? To put it mildly, doing checking each tape to get a backupid, searching for each one individually in the catalog and duplicating them one by one seems crazy.
Thanks in advance,
Larry
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05-16-2016 01:40 AM
You can script it.
Run bpimmedia (images on media) for each tape, extract image-id's and add them to a text file - one image-id per line.
Next, use bpduplicate with -Bidfile option to specify the text file containing image-id's.
PS:
I find a requirement to duplicate 700 tapes equally crazy....
05-16-2016 01:40 AM
You can script it.
Run bpimmedia (images on media) for each tape, extract image-id's and add them to a text file - one image-id per line.
Next, use bpduplicate with -Bidfile option to specify the text file containing image-id's.
PS:
I find a requirement to duplicate 700 tapes equally crazy....
05-16-2016 09:40 AM
Thanks Marianne