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

migrating to different tape technology (2 libraries)

2007-11-21 Thread Gill, Geoffrey L.
When migrating data from one type of tape to another (2 libraries), with both types on the same TSM server, what is the best method(s) that would move data from the old type to a new type, create offsite volumes with the new type and remove data from both onsite and offsite old type tapes so they c