Sergio responded but my reply was backed by his server. I wrote:
Sergio:
Thank you for your prompt reply. Pragmatically speaking that probably
makes the most sense. I had thought about it but decided to pose the
question to see what other people thought.
Alan
For several years I have used two tape drives (an LTO2 and LTO3) and two
Bacula instances backing up my Lan. As expected, the LTO2 drive finally
failed. As a test, I moved all backups to the LTO3 with some success. I
was wondering if I could unload the entire catalog from the LTO2
environment,