Ditto what Michael Green said and, if you rename the LTO3 pools to
and give the new LTO4 pool the original poolname, it's very
transparent: TSM will write to the new LTO4 pool as usual (it has the old
name), but if a restore is requested, TSM knows that the requested files are
now in stgpool.
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When I was migrating from LTO2 to LTO4 I created new new LTO4
devclass and based on them new LTO4 stgpools and set them as target
for migration and then moved all the data from LTO2 stgpool to LTO4.
If you would prefer to not move the data actively you can set LTO4
pools as target stgpool for the
We have a TS3500 which is physically partitioned to allow for LTO2 &
LTO3 mixed media. We're planning on replacing the LTO3 drives with LTO4
drives early in January and obviously we'll need to balance the number
of LTO3 & LTO4 tapes in the library as the data migrates to LTO4. Is it
possible to s