tapecopy for autoloader (Sony LIB-D81)

[krobert]

I just installed our new Sony LIB-D81 Autoloader. I would like to have a 4 tape rotation system. This would leave me 4 tapes to leave on site each day. After the backups run each evening, I would like to copy from tape 1 to tape 5, tape 2 to tape 6, etc. I keep getting an error as follows:

Connect to target tape failed, rc [27]
Tape copy failed.

The command I was using is as follows:
tapecopy -s GROUP2 -d ONSITE -t"NAME OF TAPE 1", -c"COPY 5 TAPE" -idd xxxx -zd 1 -o

The xxxx is the Tape ID.

I am sure I am missing something simple, but if anyone has had any success, please let me know. Thank you very much for your assistance.

Kelly

 

[Cyklops]

This is an autoloader with only one tape drive right ?

You cannot use the tapecopy command with just one tape drive, you need at least two drives to accomplish this.

regards

 

[krobert]

Yes you are correct it is an Autoloader with one tape drive, but I was told by ca this could be done if I made a new group and put the 4 in rotation in one group the the 4 tapes I want to copy to in another group. I have a tech from ca that is suppose to call me back tomorrow, but his English is a little hard to understand at times. I was hoping to find something on this forum before he called back.

 

[davidmichel]

time to re-think your setup.

either get another drive or backup to a FSD.
then tapecopy from FSD to tape for offsite.

 

[Cyklops]

for tapecopy you need a source AND a destination tape drive. You cannot copy data from a source tape that is loaded in
drive A to a destination tape that is loaded in .....drive A.
Whatever CA tells you this cannot be accomplished with an autoloader.
Like David mentions: go to a backup-to-disk-copy-to-tape
(or disk staging) scenario

regards

 

[krobert]

I did finally get a call back from CA and as each of you said, I can not do this. I am going do the backup-to-disk-copy-to-tape. Thank you for all your assistance.