Cloning tapes across a network 2

[squidflakes]

Good evening gentlemen,

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to clone tapes from one Legato server to another across a network?

I've got two Sun servers running 5.5.1 (yes, I know, but I am forbidden to upgrade at this time) and I want to use the jukebox on the second server to clone the tapes from the jukebox on the first server.

If this is possible, could someone tell me how I would go about setting this up? I've inherited this system, and I'm very new to Legato

 

[goony]

Take a look at an admin guide and look for "Firewall" in the table of contents - the ports that would need to be opened (assuming you have firewalls between your boxes) are by no means trivial. Also - since you have such an old version I'm not sure if the port information in a newer manual would be accurate.

Most recent Networker Admin Guide - Unix:

http://web1.legato.com/infodev/publications/NetWorker/UNIX/7.1/uxag_7.1.pdf

And, of course, you'll need to have a network robust enough to support something like this - you don't mention if you're talking about a local lan or a WAN.

 

[605]

This does not make sense. As the second NW server does not know anything about the media, you must run at least "scenner -m" before you can clone the volume. So it will take even longer.

 

[squidflakes]

Thank you both for the tip.

Goony - This will be done over local LAN, on a special back-ups vlan.

605 - Would it make more sense to hang the second jukebox off the same scsi chain as the primary jukebox and only use one server?

 

[605]

Sure, that's how you usually do it. Because then the data can be transported directly. And the server knows where the clone tape is.