How to migrate data to physical tape?

[vincentzm]

Hi, everyone.
I'm a newbie to VTL. I have installed mhvtl and everything is OK.
I write some data to the tape E01001L4 by the following commands:
tar cvf /dev/st0 /root/data/*
The question is: How can I migrate the data to a physical tape?
Thank you for your help!

Vincent.

[Mark Harvey]

There is no functionality within the VTL to perform this.

Most backup software has the capability to 'duplicate' (NetBackup) or 'clone'(NetWorker) a backup image from one location to another.

Using basic tools like tar and/or cpio, the only method I know of, is to restore the data and re-backup to the new destination.

Cheers

[vincentzm]

Mark Harvey wrote

There is no functionality within the VTL to perform this.
    -- FalconStor VTL has the functionality to directly export data to physical tapes. So this is not the standard functionality of VTL?
Most backup software has the capability to 'duplicate' (NetBackup) or 'clone'(NetWorker) a backup image from one location to another.

Using basic tools like tar and/or cpio, the only method I know of, is to restore the data and re-backup to the new destination.
    -- For the backup softwares of using basic tools, the data will follow this way: virtual tape --> some where(disk/raid)  --> physical tape.

Cheers

    Does my understand right?
Thank you.

Vincent

[nia]

Per my understanding, Mark is not developing MHVTL to be like a typical commercial VTL but instead as close as possible to a typical physical tape library.. This could be why many typical commercial VTL features are missing in MHVTL.

-nia

[vincentzm]

Got it! Thank you for your post.

Another question, Does MHVTL implement the LTOx or any other tape formats? Or it just save data in its own way on disk?

Vincent.

[Mark Harvey]

As far as I'm aware, the on-disk format is unique to this mhvtl..