Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Moving assigned media to another volume pool?

2007-01-30 13:58:05
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Moving assigned media to another volume pool?
From: ddunham at taos.com (Darren Dunham)
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:58:05 -0800 (PST)
> I need help in finding information how to move assigned media to a
> different volume pool.  We recently had a backup job complete that has a
> 2 month retention on one of our tapes.  That particular media is
> assigned to 2 month volume pool.  I need to increase the retention of
> the media to year, and move that media to our 1 year volume pool.  I
> know to change the retention level of the tape I use the bpexpdate
> command, but I don't know is how to move that assigned tape to another
> volume pool.  In the earlier versions, I used vmquery -deassignbyid, but
> in 6.0 that command is non-usable.  We are on 6.0 MP3, running off of
> Solaris 10. Any help is greatly appreciated.

You could duplicate the data onto a tape in the correct pool if you have
two tape drives.

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham at taos.com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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