Resubmitting a cancelled data migration job in CA ARCserve Backup

Resubmitting a cancelled data migration job in CA ARCserve Backup

We use a staging area for our daily backups and transfer the weeklies to tape (actually disks). One week we had a tape that was not properly erased to the backup filled it up during the migration process and then was waiting for a new, blank tape. What we wanted was for the migration job to just start over since we didn’t want to have two tapes. There does not appear to be a way in the GUI to do this.

Enter the ‘tapecopy’ command (located here on our system: “C:\Program Files (x86)\CA\ARCserve Backup”). This command will copy one tape to another. The issue we had was that the Staging Area appears as one tape with many sessions, so we had to use specific session numbers. This took a bit of doing.

Here’s the command:

tapecopy -sSTGGROUP -dBUGROUP -t”6/10/13 11:30 PM” -n2222 -c”Blank Media” -b

-s – Source group
-d – Destination group
-t – Source tape. This is tricky since all backups in the staging area are technically on one virtual ‘tape’
-n – That’s why we need the starting ‘Session number’. This will back up from this session number until the end
-c – The destination tape name in the destination group. If you just erased it it will be caled “Blank Media”, but that’s also what it will be called permanently, so a remane would be in order…
-b – Only use blank media (*depricated*)

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