I believe that you would define tape pool of 80 for each, with regular expressions you may be able to have the same label string format but different tape number ranges. Maybe like this?
Sales POOL1[0-9][0-9] Support POOL2[0-9][0-9] Research POOL3[0-9][0-9] For sanity I think I'd define 3 tape pools in the one changer. You spend time loading and unloading tapes to find the pool and tapes you want, but since this is done without having to access a physical tape drive or robot it will take virtually no time at all. -----Original Message----- From: owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org <owner-amanda-us...@amanda.org> On Behalf Of Jon LaBadie Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2018 3:25 PM To: amanda-users@amanda.org Subject: tape pools, wrapping my mind around them ATTENTION: This email came from an external source. Do not open attachments or click on links from unknown senders or unexpected emails. I currently have 240 Vtapes in a single changer. Suppose I have 3 "departments", sales, research, and support. Could I create 3 dumptype definitions so that all "sales" DLEs are backed up to a tape pool consisting of vtapes 1-80, "research" to vtapes 81-160, and "support" to vtapes 161-240? If so, then a single config could handle keeping the various data separated while still maintaining balance etc. Of course, is the balance on a tape pool basis or on a total configuration basis? Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie j...@jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)
