Sun Microsystems Virtual Tape Library manual Copying tapes

Managing tapes

3. From the context menus, select Replication (B below), Promote (C).

A

BC

4.When the confirmation panel appears, press OK (D below).

D

5.Rescan devices from the SAN client or restart the client so that it can see the promoted virtual tape.

Stop here.

Copying tapes

You can copy the contents of a single tape to a remote server, on demand, using the VTL Remote Copy feature. The Remote Copy feature replicates full tapes. It does not append data to existing virtual tapes or overwrite the contents of tapes.

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