Knowledgebase: Using tape drives
Migrating to another tape generation
Posted by Sven 2, Last modified by Andre Kuehnemund on 20 August 2015 10:22
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When migrating to another tape generation, it may be neccessary to migrate archived data to a different pool as well.
Note that in order to do so, you will need the new and the old tape drive. | |
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Comments (4)
Patrick Slokker
04 September 2013 15:15
I have cloned tapeset's for my archive, do I need both tape's to migrate or will the system create a cloned set from 1 original tape?
Andre Kuehnemund
19 November 2013 16:51
You can always regenerate a clone or master tape from the other tape.
James Press
11 June 2015 3:28
As at June 2015, do you still need the old tape drive to perform a migration to new tapes created on a new tape drive?
Andre Kuehnemund
20 August 2015 10:24
You'll still need two tape drives: one to read the old tapes, and another one to write the migrated data to. You don't necessarily need the old tape drive. For example, a LTO-6 tape drive can read LTO-4 tapes. An LTO-6 drive cannot read LTO-3 tapes, so in that case you would need to use the old LTO-3 tape drive in order to be able to read the LTO-3 tape.