Hi Lieven, I went through this with CA-DISK 9.02 last year. Because the product tracks the internal datasets on that volume, you must use the products utilities to perform the copy. The merge function can be set up to output to just about any tape configuration. By using the merge function, you end up squeezing the data from the 3480 cartridges to the higher capacity tapes and in the end you have less tapes in your backup pool.
COPYCAT might work but you will not gain the efficiencies of the high capacity tape. This will only give you a volume to volume copy. You can't stack other CA-DISK datasets on it because the product records the volume location of the dataset internally. Regards, Neal Kostanski Transaction Oriented Platforms - Large Server Support Abbott Laboratories Ph: 614-624-3613 FAX: 614-727-3613 Yahoo IM: criterion_0 -----Original Message----- The client needs to convert some old 3480 CA-DISK backups to some higher capacity media. They want to keep the CA-DISK environment. For the moment I see 2 options. 1) use XCOPY to copy all backup tape volumes onto higher capacity media. Will XCOPY stack the old files onto the new volume? Can someone explain me how it works. 2) I use COPYCAT to stack the old 3480 onto the new tapes and run the the archive rebuild util to create a new files dataset. But will this work as well for the backups? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
