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Re: [Networker] What's the best way to clone old tapes (DLT) onto the new media?

2004-11-04 11:08:05
Subject: Re: [Networker] What's the best way to clone old tapes (DLT) onto the new media?
From: Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 08:28:16 -0800
> Automatically copying save sets(s) to other volume(s)
> Starting cloning operation...
> nsrclone: error, bad first fragment
> nsrclone: Cannot open nsrclone session with NWserver2 nsrclone: Failed to 
> clone any save sets
>
> The tape should be OK as I was able to scanner it before.

I've not seen that message before, but it certainly looks like a bad
tape, or bad data on the tape.

You could use the -v option to see what nsrclone is doing.  Can you do a
saveset restore from that saveset?  If so, the clone should also work.

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