no, you're not missing anything.duplication can only be targeted to a 
given storage unit and volume pool.

so if you really wanna guarantee that tape 1 goes to tape 6, then 
tape 6 should be the only tape in its volume pool.

HTH
rob

At 9:52 PM -0600 12/31/02, Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT CA wrote:
>NB 4.5
>Solaris 8
>exabyte 220 with 2 mamoth tape drives.
>
>I need to duplicate 5 tapes. Tape id 1,2,3,4,5 to tapes id 6,7,8,9,10 and
>sent them offsite.
>
>bpduplicate does not seem to have the ability to duplicate tape 1 to tape
>6 and so on...
>
>Am i missing something?
>
>I tried duplicating tape 1but it writes to tape 3.
>
>Is there a way to say duplicate to tape id x?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Karl
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