Duplicate tape media

[01backuper]

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to copy a tape to a new tape using the same robot under Veritas Netbackup 5?
Or for that matter, any means of dumping a tape to disk and copy from there??
Thanks in advance..

 

[glaserc]

are you running on the windows or unix system?

I know in 6.0 (unsure if the cmd is there on 5.0???) you can use bpduplicate...pretty simple. bpduplicate -? will give you the switches that you need

 

[01backuper]

It's under Solaris 9 and the backup drive is a Sun Storedge L8 with an 8 tape capacity..

 

[Stumpr]

duplication is a basic operation in Netbackup using the GUI under the catalog section or via the command bpduplicate as explained in the previous post

Bob Stump
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