Is it possible to clone a saveset to the same clone pool? (by directing the clone to a particlar volume?) nsrclone only seems to want a source volume, but a destination pool....
here's the situation why. (maybe there is another way to do what I want)
I have 2 tape librarys on my server. (one is LTO1 , the other LTO2).
Over the weekend I do staging from Adv-file type to tape. Halfway through the weekend, my LTO2 had some problems, so I stopped the staging and labeled some volumes on my LTO1 device (that the staging would take so I could clear off the adv file device so my late night sunday backup would run).
Now Monday morning, I get my LTO2 running fine, but now i am left with some of my data on LTO1 and some on LTO2.
What I want to do is take the data from the LTO1 and clone it to the LTO2 volumes so my offsite is just LTO2 volumes.
When I tried the nsrclone it tried to clone within the same media type...(that is, it picked up a volume from my LTO1 to write to, not lto2.
Try setting your LTO-1 drives to read-only / write-protect mode & make sure you have available tapes in the LTO-2 library for the pool you want to clone to, then kick off the clone.
This should stop it from writing to the LTO-1 drives. Cheers, John
You could try creating a new cloning pool that only contains your LTO2 drives. Then modify your client to direct clones to this pool. Then do a saveset clone -- I'm not sure a volume clone would work.
Not sure if it will work but it's what I'd try. Good luck.
jherlihy
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Posted July 30th, 2006 22:00
This should stop it from writing to the LTO-1 drives.
Cheers,
John