I agree with brerrabbit.  We autoclone and have very few problems,
primarily with hardware issues.  Maybe 2 or 3 times a year.

Dave Werth
Garmin AT, Inc.
Salem, Oregon
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Subject: [Networker] Cloning from VTL to Tape

Landwehr, Jerome wrote:
> Well, generally there's two ways to do cloning. The first is as a save

> group, you flip a flag to clone at group completion. The only other  
> option
> IMO is by listing the savesets into a file and using nsrclone
commands.
> 
> The issue I've had with cloning is it inevitably fails at some point,

> leaving you to cleanup the mess and try again!
> 
> HTH
> Jerry
> 
> On Oct 9, 2008, at 12:53 PM, "JesseGill" <networker-forum < at >
BACKUPCENTRAL.COM 
> 
> 


Jerry, if your clones inevitably fail then there's something else broken
in your system.  We're running 7.3.3 in a Windows-only environment, and
I've got eight clone jobs running from four VTL's to a single tape
library every day.   We might have something weird happen to a single
clone job once every six months.  We've had SAN connectivity issues from
time to time that would preclude a clone job from running, but once the
connectivity is working correctly, the clones just flat work.  Can you
elaborate on the issues you're encountering and your environment?

-brerrabbit

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