I have recently setup some VTL disks and want to move them to tape for offsite storage. I can't seem to find the documentation on how to do that. Can anyone help.
Hello charles stillwell
As VTL's are virtual medias stored in disk If you want to take the disk containing the medias offsite I will say remove VTL from NetVault WebUI (this action will not delete data or the virtual tapes, will only remove the VTL to use it from NetVault side) and then using your OS instructions to pull out the disk containing the VTL and move it offsite.
Hope this info is useful for you.
Thanks but I just want to offload the data on the VTL to tape.
Sure, that's different. You need to create data copy jobs from each of your savesets stored in VTL and point it to the physical tape library, you can select Migrate option in plugin options so it will "delete" the original from VTL once it's successfully copied to the tape.
I was headed that way but I have to figure out the fine points. I assume I will have to run only certain savesets to VTL in order to do a data copy. Thanks.
I was headed that way but I have to figure out the fine points. I assume I will have to run only certain savesets to VTL in order to do a data copy. Thanks.
