Hi,
I have a NBU 5.1 MP4 with two media servers run on Solaris 9.
I have just implemented a Falconstor VTL into this environment and made a mistake on setting up compression on the virtual tapes. As I set the maxmium size of the vtape to large so when the compressed data from this tape is exported to a Physical ADIC i2k. (LT02 drives) they will not fit on to the physical media. I have fixed the vtape size issue so the maximum size is smaller so the compress data will fit on the physical media okay.
The trouble I have it that I have loads of vtapes that are to large to export physical media. I don't have the option of waiting for thes tapes to expire as I don't have the space available on the VTL to do this.
I have tried duplicating the images of the oversized tapes to other tapes but this takes ages to complete and will take a long time for 50 + tapes
I had thought of duplicating enough images and expiring them on the oversize tapes so it will take the tape size under the vaule I need to export to physical tape. The trouble is that these images actually don't get removed from the tapes so the size of the tape stays the same. I will have to expire all the images on the tape to reclaim.
Is there a way that I can zero the data for these images on the tape then the size vaule is under the vaule I need to export the rest of the images onto physical tape?
As it stands I can't think of a way that I can achieve this without duplicating the images off.
Any help or pointers would be great
Thanks
Christian