[Networker] A few questions on cloning

Hello,

I'm considering cloning some volumes, but I've never used this
capability of NetWorker before, so I had a few questions before
attempting this:

1. Is it possible to clone an LTO tape to an SDLT or vice versa if the
drives are in different libraries, both attached to the storage node
server? Here, I'm assuming that there would be enough space on the
target tape to hold the source. We don't have mixed drives in any of our
libraries so the operation would have to be able to communicate across
libraries.

2. When cloning a volume, is there a way to specify which tape to use
for the clone?
For example, let's suppose I create a clone pool named Full_clone, and I
have a label template named Full_clone using .001-999 (typical volume
would look like Full_clone.001) and I want to clone source volume
Full.001, then how do I tell it to clone this to say Full_clone.005
rather than Full_clone.001?

3. Is there a way to specify the device to use for the clone tape?

4. What happens if you remove the original volume, but you still have
the clone volume? Can this be mounted and read from just as if it was
the original?

5. Will the cloning operation span tapes if the target tape is unable to
hold all the source tape?

6. If this happens, what should the next clone volume be called? For
example, if your template looked like "Full_clone.001-999", and you
hadn't used any of these yet, and you cloned Full.001, but it was unable
to fit on the first clone tape (Full_clone.001) then would NetWorker put
the rest on Full_clone.002, or would it refer to the second volume also
as Full_clone.001? I don't use barcodes on the tapes that I will be
cloning -- these have stick labels I create manually -- so I just wanted
to know what label names I should put on the clone volumes.

Thanks.

George

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