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Clone old media - options?

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I have about 10,000 SDLT tapes that my company wants to consolidate onto LTO-5 (our current standard).  I still have a 400 tape library to hold batches of SDLT, and a small library for the LTO-5 to dedicate to writes.  I have a few questions on how best to do this:

  1. How can I best come up with groups of tapes to load in a library that I can make sure that spanned sets are complete?
  2. Since 5 SDLT can fit on one LTO-5 (approx), can I simply copy media, or do I have to duplicate jobs only (have about 50,000 jobs in the history)?

Now, I know this will take a LONG time, and our data retention policies are such that I cannot eliminate tapes from this migration.  I just need to get this started and in a fashion I can hand to someone to keep doing.  We have used BUEX for the whole time (different versions though), and have catalogs that span the entire retention time.

Any ideas?


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