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davise

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July 24th, 2006 15:00

Cloning question

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.

Any thoughts or suggestions?
  • jherlihy

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    Posted July 30th, 2006 22:00

    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
  • davise

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    Posted July 24th, 2006 16:00

    Yes. I thought of that, but seemed a bit of work for somethign that seemed relatively simple at first glance.
  • josienski

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    Posted July 24th, 2006 16:00

    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.
  • davise

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    Posted July 31st, 2006 08:00

    Thanks. Didn't think about doing it that way. I think next time if I ever run into this, I"ll try it.

    tyanks!

    -E