BackBox H4.00 User Manual

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Import from Tape Catalog
This page is used to register in the BackPak catalog, volumes that are already known in
a tape catalog on the NonStop: DSM/TC, TMF or QTOS.
This is normally used in the first steps of a migration from a legacy storage system to
BackBox, in which case only SCRATCH volumes will be registered.
For a migration, the registration of ASSIGN volumes must be done by the other function
“Virtualize Volume” that will both transfer data and register the volume.
Experimented users can also use this function to re-register all tape volumes of a
Volume Group.
In any cases, this Import from Tape Catalog updates only three items:
- Create volume entries in the BackPak Domain
- Create empty volumes in the storage for SCRATCH and RELEASE volumes
associated to a Volume Group that is not set for Auto-scratch
- Possibly update the media type of volume in DSM/TC to match the media
type configured in the BackPak Volume Group.
Volumes already existing in the BackPak Domain are simply skipped if they already
belong to the same Volume Group. If they belong to another Volume Group, they will be
updated to belong to the Volume Group entered in this page, they will ‘migrate’ to this
new group.
Page elements
Volume Group: Selects the Volume Group for which virtual volumes will be
registered. BackPak will get the volume entries in the tape catalog associated to
this Volume Group, for example a DSM/TC pool in a given DSM/TC VOLCAT.
All SCRATCH volumes (or all volumes) of a DSM/TC pool, a QTOS vault, or a TMF
node catalog in a node, will be registered in the domain.
Import only the SCRATCH volumes for a migration to BackBox: Check to select
only the SCRATCH and RELEASED volumes.
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