RE: duplicate a backup tape

And an added bonus may be (again if you have both drives) that you can
append to the tape you are going to.  I recently had to move stuff from some
low density tapes to a much higher density.  I was able to DUPTAP the first
one normally but *LEAVE the "to" tape.  Plug in the next "from" tape and on
the DUPTAP command, change the "to sequence number" option to *END.  Do this
for as "many to one" as you need to DUPTAP!  It consolidated many tapes into
one for me!  

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Bolhuis [mailto:lbolhuis@arbsol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 11:26 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: duplicate a backup tape


If you have two drives, use DUPTAP - Best option.
If you have only one, but have TAA Tools  use DUPTAPIN and DUPTAPOUT.
If you have neither of the above, find a friend who does!
Actually you can use the LABEL parameter to force the tape file name to
what you want during the save, but you're still in for a LONG haul. 
Dual drives is the answer.
 
 - Larry

Mary Koetting wrote:
> 
> I need to duplicate 40 backup tapes (with multiple libraries) that were
> created with a SAVLIB command. Is there anyway I can have the the
duplicate
> tape have the same library names as the first tape. Is the correct, most
> efficient method to:
> 
> 1. RSTLIB to a temporary library. (I can't use the real library name
because
> it's our production library)
> 2. SAVLIB the temporary library. (I didn't see anywhere where I could
change
> the name of the library when I save it).
> 

-- 
Larry Bolhuis
Arbor Solutions, Inc.
(616) 451-2500
(616) 451-2571 -fax
lbolhuis@arbsol.com
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