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Re: [Networker] transitioning from AIT-2 to AIT-3

2003-09-12 08:26:34
Subject: Re: [Networker] transitioning from AIT-2 to AIT-3
From: Ole Hermansen <oh AT DK.HEMPEL DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 08:26:30 -0400
On Fri, 12 Sep 2003 07:40:14 -0400, Steve Barber <steveb AT CME.NIST DOT GOV>
wrote:

>Ole Hermansen wrote:
>> I replaced the 3 AIT-2 drives with new AIT-3 drives, and replaced the
AIT-1
>> drives with my old (3 years) AIT-2 drives. New drivers for Win2K was
added,
>> and then I deleted the devices and jukeboxes from Networker and recreated
>> them from jbconfig on a commandline.
>
>Just so I'm clear: you created the new devices with the new media type?
>
>>>Yes, what used to be AIT-2 drives are now AIT-3.
>>>I am currently labeling new tapes, and looking forward to this weekend´s
>>>full backup. Would you like to hear about success/failure next week ?


>> It appears that everything is working proberly, I am able to read and
>> append to my old AIT-2 tapes, in fact, some tapes that was written to
just
>> before the upgrade, and i continued to write to them after the upgrade.
We
>> also did restore various files without problems. I have also written to
AIT-
>> 1 tapes with AIT-3 drives with no problem.
>
>Excellent.  Thanks for the feedback!  That makes me feel better.
>
>Steve
>
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