Re: Transferring tapes from LTO3 to LTO4

2009-12-28 Thread Steve Stackwick
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. St

Re: Transferring tapes from LTO3 to LTO4

2009-12-24 Thread Michael Green
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

Transferring tapes from LTO3 to LTO4

2009-12-24 Thread Baker, Jane
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