That is what I use volume groups for, in pretty much the same manner,
for my offsite tapes.  I just rotate tapes once a week, that's all.

--- Jeff

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Timothy J. Arnold wrote:

> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:53:46 -0000
> From: Timothy J. Arnold <tim AT ngfl.gov DOT uk>
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Volume Groups
>
> Hello,
>
> Can anyone explain how they remove tapes from netbackup to be sent to
> offsite storage. Do you use volume groups? The current method I use is:
>
> 1. Identify tapes written in the last 24 hour [ bpimagelist -A -media
> -hoursago 24]
>
> 2. Use vmadm and move the tapes to a new volume group [chosen from
> MONDAY,TUESDAY etc]
>
> 3. Remove tapes, insert new tapes, perform vmupdate
>
> Is this the correct method?
>
> If this is the case has anyone managed to automate the process of moving
> written tapes to volume groups in any scripts?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Timothy
>
>
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