>
> What's the best way to clone old tapes (DLT) onto the new media (LTO)?

nsrclone, generally.

> Do I need to create all the clients onto a new server, run scanner -i
> /dev/rmt/0cbn to scan everything in and then clone the whole volume.

scanner -i rebuilds the file indexes.  You don't need the file indexes
to clone.

Do you at least have the media indexes?  If so, you can create a clone
pool for the LTO tapes, run 'mminfo' to get the savesets of the old
tapes, then run nsrclone on them to the clone pool.

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