LT01 to LT02 tape duplication

[Tim_Biller_2]

Hello all,

I have a task here to locate and duplicate all images written to LTO1 tape with a 7 seven year retention and duplicate these images onto LTO2, then ejecting the LTO1 tapes for disposal.

(There are hundreds of these tapes)

Identifying the tapes to duplicate from is straightforward but I'm not at all sure how to run bpduplicate against a tape ID rather than the backup ID (eg using the -Bidfile flag).

Has anyone done this or can anyone point me in the right direction please?

(master and all media servers are Unix)

Thanks,

Tim

[Chia_Tan_Beng]

Tim,

It is quite similar, the script should contain bpduplicate -id parameter instead of -backupid or -Bidfile parameters.
E.g.
bpduplicate -id 000001 -dp
bpduplicate -id 000002 -dp
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Do load in (& inventory) all the identified tapes if possible as some backup images can span 2 or more media.

[Tim_Biller_2]

Thanks for such a prompt reply.

What I'm not sure of is how easily I can get the backup ID's for these backups in the first instance?

Ideally some form of script to obtain the ID's and thern execute the bpduplicate against them sequentially.


Thanks again,

Tim