We are buying some 3592-E06 drives to replace the 3592-E05 drives in our 3584 tape libraries. The goal is to store more TB on the cartridges we already have. The 3592-E06 drives can read the E05 format, but they will write in E05 format too unless the tapes are re-formatted in the E06 format. So, we are wondering how best to migrate the E05 formatted tapes to the E06 format.
When we add the E06 drives we will remove the E05 drives. Is this just a matter of; 1) reclaim the E05 tapes, 2) checkout the scratch tapes returned from reclamation, 3) 'label libv overwrite=yes' the just checked-out tapes. Or, is there a simpler, more efficient way to do this? Would new storage pools help in the transition? With my thanks, Keith Arbogast
