Deleting/Restoring File System Backups

[yanks2112]

Hi All,

I have been running file system backups for about a week and plan to move the sessions to tape using tapecopy. The problem is I am running out of room on my file system and need to delete the sessions. What I wopuld like to do is delete the file system backups (the .CTF files) via the device manager, then when I have tapes I would restore those .CTF files via Volume Shadow Services, then run Tapecopy to copy those sessions to tape.
The problem I forsee having is I wont be able to do a tapecopy because the media and sessions from the file system would have been deleted. Can I do this: Delete the media (File System Device) and later restore it and copy those sessions to tape. I looked at the Merge, but as far as I can see that requires a media name.
I hope this makes sense!

Thaks for all of your help

 

[yanks2112]

Hi All,

I found the solution. This is what I did:

1) Stopped the Tape Engine
2) Copy all session files (.CTF) to a separate loction
3) Erase the mmedia
When those sessions are needed again:
1) Stop the Tape Engine
2) Copy those sessions to their original location. Be sure to overwrite the Header.ctf file
3) Start the tape engine
4) In device manager you will see the media name (i.e, 6/17/07 110:00AM
5) Merge that session back into the database and you're all set.