Re: [Networker] How to duplicate tapes

No. NSRStage is used to move SSID from a pool to another one,
not for duplicating volumes.

You probably mean "nsrclone" that is right command to look at.

Do not forget and keep in mind nsrclone is neither a 
"volume duplicate" command :
as networker allows you to clone from/to different mediums, 
duplicate operation is extracting source ssid from media
and copy it to target volume. 

So, it is absolutely not a physical copy by a logical copy.

Th

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-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Wood, R A (Bob)
Sent: mercredi 27 juin 2007 1:28
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] How to duplicate tapes

Vernon,
        Using networker to do this you would use nsrstage (you can read
manual for full description) here's one way to do it.

mminfo -s servername -q "SSID" -r"volume=volumename1,
volume=volumename2,volume=volumaneme3" 

This gives a list of savesets on those volumes (you can be fancy and
check flags so you son't get orphaned heads, middles, or tails but, by
leaving them in Networker will reinflate the saveset to copy it so be
prepared for other tapes to be used)

Having your list of SSIDs you can save them to a file for input into the
nsrstage command or pipe them directly

Nsrstage -s servername -v -b pool -m -S -f filename

(the -f filename is for when you've saved the SSID list, I find this
handy for doing cross check to make sure all is copied)

Other methods include using third party software/devices and I have no
experience of those (by using networker you can use either tape in
networker and it won't complain...)


Regards
Bob



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>-----Original Message-----
>From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
>[mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Vernon Harris
>Sent: 26 June 2007 16:07
>To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>Subject: [Networker] How to duplicate tapes
>
>Is there anyone out there that knows how to duplicate tapes 
>automatically.  Meaning, what's the easiest way to duplicate 
>several tapes.  Is there a command line procedure to do this 
>which can be scripted?  
>
>Thanks
>
>
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