Re: Dupping from physical to virtual tape via BRMS

On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Gary Thompson <gthompson@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Jeff,
My BRMS chops are very rusty, no longer involved with operations
for 6+ years, but I think BRMS wants more media and you think
BRMS should have already completed the dup ?

Maybe check "first 6 labels" to see what has actually been "duped" ?
1) BRMS is not writing/re-writing ?

The first 6 labels get written to the virtual tape, then it errors.

2) different tape density = more media ?

I thought the virtual tape just kept expanding as needed. This dup worked
just a couple of months ago.

3) maybe BRMS is not able to accept "G" option
because it's "too far in the dup" and if you
Cancel/Re-try it works ?
4) not sure about "tape /drive/ to virtual" but
is there some significant difference from
from what you tested before ?

I was trying the /drive/ to virtual just to get a time estimate compared to
how long it took to dup from the /library/ to virtual. When dupping from
the /drive/ failed, I then tried it from the /library/ only because it had
worked from the library a couple of months ago. Then, when the /library/
attempt failed, I started scratching my head.