You could do a couple of things

     1) export the node, delete it, then import it... since all the data
     would be entering the server at once it would tend to, initially, be
     grouped together

     2) define a different management class which uses a different storage
     pool (that you would also have to define) and bind the client's data
     to that new management class.  If only that client uses that
     management class and only that management class uses that storage
     pool, it would isolate that client's data on a specific group of
     tapes.  (I've done this with out production SAP servers so their
     backups (archives) will stay on their own tapes so that during a
     potential critical restore there is NO chance of some other node's
     activity conflicting with a production SAP data base restore)

     later,
           Dwight


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Subject: consolidating a node on fewer tapes
Author:  joelf at unix,mime/DD.RFC-822=joelf AT CAC.WASHINGTON DOT EDU
Date:    1/5/99 6:14 PM


Has anyone developed a method of consolidating the backups for a node onto a
new set of tapes without using collocation?