Jason:

You need to create a storage unit for your standalone 
drives.  The name (Ecrix-1) that you gave it is 
configured in the Device Database (Media Manager), 
Storage Units are a part of your NetBackup DBs.

David

Quoting "Jason Ahrens [ahrensj AT psi DOT ca]" 
<AhrensJ AT psi DOT ca>:

> I have a situation where I need to to the following.
>
> I have a tape silo containing 9840 drives which 
contain all the backups we
> do. It is attached to the media server. The name of 
the silo is STKLIB1
>
> I have a stanadlone tape drive attached to the master 
server. The tape
> drive
> name is Ecrix-1.
>
> I have a backup ID I wish to duplicate The ID is
> server1.internal_0989589415
>
> I have a tape in the standalone, which I have labled 
with ID SRVBAK
>
> I tried the following to duplicate:
>
> bpduplicate -dstunit Ecrix-1 -backupid 
server1.internal_0989589415 -L
> /tmp/out.log
>
> I get an error telling me that:
>
> 16:47:04 INF - cannot find storage unit Ecrix-1: no 
entity was found (227)
>
> so obviously I'm doing something wrong. I know I can 
duplicate within the
> silo, but I can't seem to figure out how to do it 
from the silo to the
> standalone.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jason
> --
> Jason Ahrens
> Systems Administrator
> PSINet Limited
> http://www.psi.ca
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