tape to tape copy

2002-12-11 Thread StorageGroupAdmin StorageGroupAdmin
Hello, Running TSM 5.1 on Solaris 8, using IBM 3590's in an ATL over a SAN (& SAN DATA GATEWAYS) Does anyone know how to copy a TSM BACKUPSET series of tapes directly to another set of tapes (1 at a time is fine) I already know the following: TSM has no way of doing this. Solaris DD or TAR

Re: tape to tape copy

2002-12-09 Thread Roger Deschner
I don't think you can do it, reliably. TSM tries to try to fill each tape as full as it can, until it hits physical EOT. Two tapes, even if from the same manufacturer and the same batch, will inevitably be slightly different lengths. So, when you copy one full tape to another tape, there is a 50% c

tape to tape copy

2002-12-08 Thread StorageGroupAdmin StorageGroupAdmin
Hello, Running TSM 5.1 on Solaris 8, using IBM 3590's in an ATL over a SAN (& SAN DATA GATEWAYS) Does anyone know how to copy a TSM BACKUPSET series of tapes directly to another set of tapes (1 at a time is fine) I already know the following: TSM has no way of doing this. Solaris DD or TAR