Re: migrating to different tape technology (2 libraries)

2007-11-24 Thread Wanda Prather
Same result, less work for you (in my opinion): Set up your new devclass and tape pools, do whatever testing you want to do to make yourself comfortable that the hardware is OK. -Switch your DB Backupsto the new devclass -RENAME your old primary pool to PRIMARYNAME-OLD -RENAME your old copy pool

Re: migrating to different tape technology (2 libraries)

2007-11-21 Thread Steven Harris
Hi Geoff Switch your DB backups to the new technology and start shipping offsite. (run DBsnapshots to the old technology if you are a nervous nellie) Create another copypool on the new technology. Run a backup stg whenever you have some spare cycles/drives until the pool is up to date. Then star