The tapes from another vendor will show up as "unlabled" and will just
be treated as a new piece of media would be.

On 10/12/09, Chester Martin <cmartin AT spp DOT org> wrote:
> I'll look into some of the companies that take care of this type of deal
> then.  Thanks for the reply.
>
>
>
> From: Preston de Guise [mailto:enterprise.backup AT gmail DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 1:37 PM
> To: EMC NetWorker discussion; Chester Martin
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Migration from netbackup
>
>
>
> Chester,
>
>
>
> On 13/10/2009, at 02:18 , Chester Martin wrote:
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> *         We have migrated our backup environment to networker from
> netbackup.  Problem is, we have a few hundred tapes from the netbackup
> environment that will not expire for at least 7 more years.  We do not
> want to keep our existing netbackup environment for that long, so we
> have to "convert" those tapes to networker.  Does anyone have any
> pointers on how to get this done, whether it be through an outside
> company or is there a way to do this through networker (something other
> than restoring with netbackup and rebacking it up with networker)?
>
>
>
> There's no way of doing it within NetWorker. There are some companies
> that do this sort of data transfer. Such companies are normally
> rated/authorised for legally signing off against the data that has been
> recovered then written back out to tape that it was "really" backed up
> on the original date (if this is necessary for your environment/for your
> data).
>
>
>
> (I'm only directly aware of AU/NZ services - the standard practice
> though is a per tape charge.)
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> Preston.
>
>
>
> --
>
> Preston de Guise
>
>
>
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> 20076396
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