Hi guys,
Hoping you can help. My boss asked me to find out which tapes can be taken out of DPM - to drum up some kind of report (either via script or other) which shows tapes with an expired retention period? I didn't make much sense to be honest.
I think the scenario is - he is moving a bunch of servers across to a new DPM server and part of this I think is to re-catalogue a bunch of tapes which can be taken from the old DPM system. I think he wants to retain the old data on tapes but wants tapes
he can re-use for the new server...
I'm not too clued up on DPM so that's probably why it doesn't make much sense. IF it helps, he made reference to the Veritas back-up system and how if a tape was marked 'blue' it could be overwritten.
If you can make sense of any of the above it would help me - I will likely ask my boss again what he meant but thought I'd some guys here too.
Thanks - Travis