Marcy,
I had an issue open with CA about this last month. I was
told HIDRO would copy backups between different media, but not VMBACKUP by
itself. Since we have never gone beyond old VMBACKUP, that answer didn't help
me.
I want to put the data on new tapes with new volsers, and
have VMBACKUP know about it, so copying everything including the volser doesn't
help my new tape library, and putting the data on a new tape without VMBACKUP
knowing the new volser means VMBACKUP is no longer accurate.
Since my "keep forever" tapes are relatively few I plan on
restoring and backing up to new media. I should be able to restore
it, if I can't, the backup isn't much use and I don't need to worry about
converting the tape right? :-) That project is not quite ready to
start.
Ron
From: VM/ESA and z/VM Discussions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 4:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Tape conversions
What do folks do about moving old VM:Backup and old HIDRO tapes to new media types? We have a bunch that are supposed to move from IBM 3590 to STK 9480C and the media types are different and CA doesn't support moving them. I suggest we just leave 1 drive, but HW manager doesn't like that at all…
Marcy Cortes
(415) 243-6343
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