We have a situation whereby we have some critical content which was pruned from other storage leaving only aged jobs on tape. I’ve been watching the catalog job run for 15 hours and the filemarker is only at 3260 (according to the CVMA.log) and if one can believe this - the end FM of the tape is 139,947,214,372,864 (at least that is what it says at the top of the TapeCatalog.log. Clearly this is a non-starter. The throughput for the last hour(s) is 0MB/s. So, is the FileMarker number real and if so, how could this possibly be a valid solution anymore? Maybe back in the DLT days, sure. Or am I misreading? Support has said there’s no way to estimate completion or progress.
The CCM method as suggested in other posts as well as support seems like a possible way, but, I also read that barcodes cannot be the same in source and dest commcells, so then what? And can I choose to simply export or import the metadata specific to this media or set of media?
Any suggestions other than waiting an eternity for this to finish I am open to at this point.
I can send you the case numbers direct if you want to assist.
thanks!
