I have a requirement to take an additional ad-hoc duplication to physical tape of a backup image that is managed by SLP.
Currently the policy as an SLP applied with the backup to VTL with retention set to X and the duplicate to a physical tape with a retention Y.
What I was hoping to do was find the backup image primary copy in the catalogue and simply right click and click duplicate however it is greyed out. I initially thought it was the maximum copies attribute in the master server properties that was stopping me as this was set to 2 however I have set this to 3 and restarted the master server; the duplicate option is greyed out.
Subsequently I have read that the duplicate option is probably not available as the policy is managed by an SLP; so my question is how to take an ad-hoc duplication of this image. (The business have decided that this image also needs to be kept for 7 years, the SLP that made the duplication has a 1 year retention).
I know I can use the command line to change the retention / expiry of the tapes to 7 years, that is my plan B option however the above seems like it should be an easy thing to do?
