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Re: [Networker] How to clone to separate media types at same time?

2004-05-06 19:01:20
Subject: Re: [Networker] How to clone to separate media types at same time?
From: Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 16:01:16 -0700
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a large number of savesets set in pool A that I want to clone to
> pool B. The tapes that contain the data are a combination of LTO and
> SDLT, but the LTO drives are on a separate library from the SDLT, but
> both libraries are connected to the same storage node server. For faster
> speed, I would prefer to clone savesets from the LTO tapes to LTO clone
> volumes and savesets from the SDLT tapes to SDLT clone volumes, so in
> each case, the affected clone volume is in the same library and thus
> much faster speed.

> I would also like to be able to run both clone
> operations simultaneously as:
>
> nsrclone -s server -b pool -S ssid1 ssid2 ssid3 (where ssid1, 2, 3 ...
> are on LTO volumes) and will be cloning to a clone volume in LTO
> library.
>
> nsrclone -s server -b pool -S ssid_a ssid_b ssid _c (where ssid_a, b, c
> ... are on SDLT volumes) and will be cloning to a clone volume in SDLT
> library.
>
> Seems to me that the simultaneous clone operations shouldn't hamper
> anything as they're coming and going to different physical tapes, *BUT*
> I don't want NetWorker to clone the savesets on the SDLT volume onto one
> of the available LTO clone volumes or vice versa. Thing is I'm not sure
> how or if I can even make NetWorker keep the cloned savesets on the
> correct tapes and not cross libraries?

Create 2 clone pools.  Create one LTO clone pool and one SDLT clone
pool.

You have to give a target pool to nsrclone, so when you're cloning SDLT
savesets, pass the SDLT clone pool.  Ditto for the LTO tapes.


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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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