Sun Microsystems Virtual Tape Library manual Copying a tape to a remote server

Managing tapes

You can only copy tapes with barcodes that are not found on the remote server. If a copy exists and you wish to proceed, you must first delete the existing remote copy copy.

You cannot copy a tape that is configured to take advantage of the Replication, Auto Replication, or Auto Archive features.

To copy tapes to a remote server, proceed as follows.

▼Copying a tape to a remote server

1.In the object tree of the VTL console, expand the VTL server node.

2.Under the VTL server, expand the Virtual Tape Library System and

Virtual Tape Libraries nodes.

3.Under the Virtual Tape Libraries node, right‐click on the virtual tape library that you want to enable (A below), and expand the Tapes node.

4.Right‐click on the virtual tape that you want to copy (B below), and select Remote Copy from the context menu (D).

A

B

C

D

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