man nsrstage.

On 10/18/10 10:38 AM, George Sinclair wrote:
> 1. Is it possible to move or copy data (let's say a save set) from source 
> tape A (pool type:
> backup) to tape B (pool type backup) *WITHOUT* tape B having to be a clone 
> volume?
> 
> The earlier post "Stage from tape to tape" got me thinking about this. When 
> using nsrstage, the
> target volume will have to a be a clone volume, correct? After all, nsrstage 
> does clone the
> data, yes? OK, assuming that much, could you use scanner with uasm and then 
> somehow re-pipe
> that to another uasm command to re-save the data to the target tape? Or, 
> would it be better to
> simply recover the data to disk and then re-back it up? This seems redundant, 
> and in some
> cases, available disk space could be an issue. What's the best way to do this 
> sort of thing?
> How would this work?
> 
> The reason this came up is because there have been times in the past when I 
> had a given tape
> with a few save sets that I wanted to get off to another tape but otherwise, 
> I wanted to just
> recycle the tape. I ended up just creating a new clone pool and cloning it, 
> but in retrospect,
> I didn't really want to have to create a new clone pool to do it, so copying 
> it to another tape
> in the same pool would have been logical. I wasn't really trying to create an 
> additional copy.
> 
> 2. On another note, is it possible to use a symbolic name for the save 
> operation to the new
> tape that's different from the name (or default name) for the original?
> 
> 3. I assume that if you wanted to do the equivalent of a move rather than a 
> copy then you'd
> have to either recycle the original tape or use nsrmm to delete the old ssid 
> from the media
> database, following the copy to the new tape, yes?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> George
> 

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