Just clone it to LTO2. Otherwise you will be doing clones twice. first to
VTL then to LTO2 or greater.

On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Steven Veitch <s.veitch AT qut.edu DOT au> 
wrote:

> Hi
> I want to import data from some old DLT8000 tapes in one zone onto LTO2
> tapes in another
> I have access to a virtual tape library.
> In anyone's experience  Would it work better to read to virtual library
> drive then clone to LTO2 or just clone from one drive to another ?
> thanks
>
> Steve
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
> On
> Behalf Of Goslin, Paul
> Sent: Friday, 16 July 2010 12:50 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] How to delete old backup on networker
>
> The OiginalPoster does not seem to understand that increasing the
> 'retention' of his backups means even more disk space will be required
> to hold the backups longer (he has already run out of space!). He also
> does not seem to understand that writing backups to disk requires a file
> type device be defined (which is nothing more than a 'special' volume
> that resides on a local disk). He needs to familiarize himself with
> Networker terminology ...
>
>  'retention' is the period of time the backup is kept before it expires
> and becomes 'recyclable' so that the media it resides on (either disk or
> tape) then becomes over-writable (after it is re-labeled). Staging save
> sets from disk requires a tape drive at minimum (I've never heard of
> staging to anything other than tapes), and the OP has mentioned nothing
> about even having a tape drive available to stage the save sets to... So
> he cannot stage anything unless he has some kind of local tape drive
> attached to his Networker server.... If he does, then he can 'stage' (or
> move) the save sets from disk to tape, thereby freeing up disk space on
> his file type device so he can then write more backups to it...
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
> On
> Behalf Of Dsouza, Rovinabishek
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 10:10 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] How to delete old backup on networker
>
> Hi,
>        The nsrstage can be refered to as a cut and paste process. By
> using nsrstage you actually clone the data from the source to another
> device and delete the source data (Only in case of a file type device -
> backup to disk). I would recommend you to go through the command
> reference guide to check the switches to suit your requirement.
>
> What "retation" are you talking about. Kindly explain more in detail.
>
> Rovin D'Souza
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
> On
> Behalf Of sameone386
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 7:21 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] How to delete old backup on networker
>
> If it's a file type device run nsrstage -C -V "volume name"
>
>
> what do you mean "file type device".  backup on disk , than yes .
>
> I wont to delete from my disk, because is full.
>
>
> What will that do, will erase all my save set, ....
>
> nsrstage -C -V Disk-002
>
>
> ........................................................................
> .....................
> how to increase retation for my networker.
>
> First I will delete old saveset (old backup) and that I will have to
> increase retation (size)
>
> How I do that ???
>
>
>
>
> I am grateful for any help
>
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