Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix
But if the bar code rule changes, how does NetBackup know that it is not a new tape? If you have 25 tapes sitting in offsite storage that NB read as ABC001-025, you pull them back for a restore, NetBackup will not know anything about them, assign them to scratch and you sit there wondering why the tapes don't load. Another scenario is that Quantum comes in and has to update the firmware on a library and in the process has to remove all of the tapes to perform the library calibration/verification (I have been through several of these). All the tapes are put back into the robot (we know not all in the same place). How will NetBackup determine what is old, what is new, what is borrowed, which admin is blue. I have worked on this for over 6 months and have had a case opened/closed with Veritas. They concur with my dooms day scenario. I have already had a similar thing happen on the install of a new library on the same master that read 8 characters instead of 6 on the bar code label. I caught it before tapes got overwritten. Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McCammont, Anderson (IT) Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Martin, Jonathan (Contractor); Spearman, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix No - changing the media id generation rule (MEDIA_ID_BARCODE_CHARS in vm.conf) affects the media id. Changing the barcode rules (potentially) changes the media type and volume pool. Existing tapes won't be reallocated to a new pool on a barcode change - if they did then every inventory of the library would break netbackup. vmupdate(1M) only assigns attributes to new media. If we could put regexps into vmrule e.g. (made up vmrule -listall -b) barcode mediavolume max mounts/ tag type pool cleanings description -- *CU$ HC2_CLN None50 LTO Cleaning Tapes CLN DLT2_CLN None20 DLT Cleaning Tapes *L4$ HCART4 Scratch 0 LTO4 media *L3$ HCART3 Scratch 0 LTO3 media *L2$ HCART2 Scratch 0 LTO2 media NONE DEFAULT None 0 DEFAULTDEFAULT Scratch 0 -- then the world would be a better place. A trivial code change I'd bet and a feature request that's been outstanding for several years. _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby Williams Sent: 25 April 2007 18:21 To: McCammont, Anderson (IT); 'Martin, Jonathan (Contractor)'; 'Spearman, David'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix You can't change the bar code rules like that in mid stream. It would change the media id of every tape already in the library and put every existing tape in scratch. You are going to either have to partition the drives in separate partitions (Yuk), or just pick your default tape type and add all of the other types manually (not a big deal). Existing tapes don't use the bar code rules anyway, they are already known. It is only NEW to the robot tapes that need to have a bar code rule. I have 2 i2K's with both LTO-3 and LTO-2. No big deal. I have them in the same partition. I use the LTO-3's mostly for tape to tape duplication for offsite (LTO-2 duplicated to LTO-3 works great). Most of the clients can't push data fast enough to feed the LTO-3 tapes. (Yes, I do multiplex some mid range x3 to feed tapes data). I use Staging disks to catch the really slow ones and do disk to tape staging to the LTO-3 tapes. If you put the LTO-3's in their own partition, you could not use any tape duplication between partitions. Another major headache that I have at a site with 2 separate libraries (both ADIC 1k's) is when one runs out of media, everything fails with 96 errors and then moves to the other physical library. Not a big issue until failure stats are looked at. Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McCammont, Anderson (IT) Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:24 PM To: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor); Spearman, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix If you do this you need to take part of your six digit barcode range and dedicate it to the particular media type. It's sad that Netbackup doesn't support proper regexps in the barcode rules so that the 'L2', 'L3' (presumably) 'L4' last two digits of the barcode can be used to select the media type. We've had a feature request in for years for this and it's gone nowhere (unless 6.x does it and our rep
Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix [NC]
Bobby, but from what I understand: But if the bar code rule changes, how does NetBackup know that it is not a new tape? By checking the media catalogs. If you have 25 tapes sitting in offsite storage that NB read as ABC001-025 you pull them back for a restore, NetBackup will not know anything about them, assign them to scratch and you sit there wondering why the tapes don't load. If you put them back in the robot for the restore, you have to make sure NBU knows about them. If it does not - then you'd have to import them. Also, NBU has rules on which tapes it can and which tapes it cannot overwrite ( ALLOW_MEDIA_OVERWRITE ) Another scenario is that Quantum comes in and has to update the firmware on a library and in the process has to remove all of the tapes to perform the library calibration/verification (I have been through several of these). All the tapes are put back into the robot (we know not all in the same place). And it does not matter for NBU which slot has which tape - that's libraries business. How will NetBackup determine what is old, what is new, what is borrowed, which admin is blue. Catalogs. I have worked on this for over 6 months and have had a case opened/closed with Veritas. They concur with my dooms day scenario. They are there to solve the immediate issues mostly. Scenarios are not welcome :-) I have already had a similar thing happen on the install of a new library on the same master that read 8 characters instead of 6 on the bar code label. I caught it before tapes got overwritten. I have no problems having 3 different media types in the 618 slots L700. All is peachy. Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:veritas-bu- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McCammont, Anderson (IT) Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 11:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Martin, Jonathan (Contractor); Spearman, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix No - changing the media id generation rule (MEDIA_ID_BARCODE_CHARS in vm.conf) affects the media id. Changing the barcode rules (potentially) changes the media type and volume pool. Existing tapes won't be reallocated to a new pool on a barcode change - if they did then every inventory of the library would break netbackup. vmupdate(1M) only assigns attributes to new media. If we could put regexps into vmrule e.g. (made up vmrule -listall -b) barcode mediavolume max mounts/ tag type pool cleanings description -- *CU$ HC2_CLN None50 LTO Cleaning Tapes CLN DLT2_CLN None20 DLT Cleaning Tapes *L4$ HCART4 Scratch 0 LTO4 media *L3$ HCART3 Scratch 0 LTO3 media *L2$ HCART2 Scratch 0 LTO2 media NONE DEFAULT None 0 DEFAULTDEFAULT Scratch 0 -- then the world would be a better place. A trivial code change I'd bet and a feature request that's been outstanding for several years. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:veritas-bu- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby Williams Sent: 25 April 2007 18:21 To: McCammont, Anderson (IT); 'Martin, Jonathan (Contractor)'; 'Spearman, David'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix You can't change the bar code rules like that in mid stream. It would change the media id of every tape already in the library and put every existing tape in scratch. You are going to either have to partition the drives in separate partitions (Yuk), or just pick your default tape type and add all of the other types manually (not a big deal). Existing tapes don't use the bar code rules anyway, they are already known. It is only NEW to the robot tapes that need to have a bar code rule. I have 2 i2K's with both LTO-3 and LTO-2. No big deal. I have them in the same partition. I use the LTO-3's mostly for tape to tape duplication for offsite (LTO-2 duplicated to LTO-3 works great). Most of the clients can't push data fast enough to feed the LTO-3 tapes. (Yes, I do multiplex some mid range x3 to feed tapes data). I use Staging disks to catch the really slow ones and do disk to tape staging to the LTO-3 tapes. If you put the LTO-3's in their own partition, you could not use any tape duplication between partitions. Another major headache that I have at a site with 2 separate libraries (both ADIC 1k's) is when one runs out of media, everything fails with 96 errors and then moves to the other physical library. Not a big issue until failure stats are looked at. Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423
Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix
You can't change the bar code rules like that in mid stream. It would change the media id of every tape already in the library and put every existing tape in scratch. You are going to either have to partition the drives in separate partitions (Yuk), or just pick your default tape type and add all of the other types manually (not a big deal). Existing tapes don't use the bar code rules anyway, they are already known. It is only NEW to the robot tapes that need to have a bar code rule. I have 2 i2K's with both LTO-3 and LTO-2. No big deal. I have them in the same partition. I use the LTO-3's mostly for tape to tape duplication for offsite (LTO-2 duplicated to LTO-3 works great). Most of the clients can't push data fast enough to feed the LTO-3 tapes. (Yes, I do multiplex some mid range x3 to feed tapes data). I use Staging disks to catch the really slow ones and do disk to tape staging to the LTO-3 tapes. If you put the LTO-3's in their own partition, you could not use any tape duplication between partitions. Another major headache that I have at a site with 2 separate libraries (both ADIC 1k's) is when one runs out of media, everything fails with 96 errors and then moves to the other physical library. Not a big issue until failure stats are looked at. Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McCammont, Anderson (IT) Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:24 PM To: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor); Spearman, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix If you do this you need to take part of your six digit barcode range and dedicate it to the particular media type. It's sad that Netbackup doesn't support proper regexps in the barcode rules so that the 'L2', 'L3' (presumably) 'L4' last two digits of the barcode can be used to select the media type. We've had a feature request in for years for this and it's gone nowhere (unless 6.x does it and our rep hasn't mentioned it). rant why's there no feedback on feature requests - even when they do make it into a release you're left to scrabble round to see if it made it in there. /rant _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) Sent: 25 April 2007 03:42 To: Spearman, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix Use barcode rules and media types. LTO2 media can be hcart2 and LTO3 can be hcart3 (I think hcart stands for Half-Inch Cartridge.) NBU will never put a hcart2 tape into an hcart3 tape device. TO NBU that's as incompatible as having LTO and DLT in the same library. -Jonathan _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spearman, David Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 3:17 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix We will be getting an expansion cabinet to our scaler 2000 soon. At the moment we have LTO-2 drives and tapes. When we add the expansion cabinet we are also going to add 2 LTO-3 drives with a set of LTO-3 tapes. My question is how do I keep LTO-2 tapes going to LTO-2 drives while the LTO-3 tapes go only to LTO-3 drives. I suspect a combination of storage units and tape pools but now that we are at NBU6mp4 expired tapes just return to the scratch pool which would make them available to anything. present setup W2K3 master/media with sso/ndmp to scaler 2000 (5 tape drives allowed) W2K3 media server sso to scaler 2000 and DSSU (4 tape drives allowed) W2K3 san media server sso to scaler 2000 David Spearman County of Henrico _ NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not intend to waive confidentiality or privilege. Use of this email is prohibited when received in error. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix
Two ways...buy the partitioning license for your i2K and have a separate logical library for LTO2's and LTO3's :-) Or you can do it based on media type. HCART2 Media (LTO2) HCART3 Media (LTO3) HCART2 Storage Units HCART3 Storage Units NBU will only mount HCART2 media in an HCART2 storage unit and so on. The media can reside in the same volume pool - that won't matter, what matters is the media type and storage unit type. david From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spearman, David Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 1:17 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix We will be getting an expansion cabinet to our scaler 2000 soon. At the moment we have LTO-2 drives and tapes. When we add the expansion cabinet we are also going to add 2 LTO-3 drives with a set of LTO-3 tapes. My question is how do I keep LTO-2 tapes going to LTO-2 drives while the LTO-3 tapes go only to LTO-3 drives. I suspect a combination of storage units and tape pools but now that we are at NBU6mp4 expired tapes just return to the scratch pool which would make them available to anything. present setup W2K3 master/media with sso/ndmp to scaler 2000 (5 tape drives allowed) W2K3 media server sso to scaler 2000 and DSSU (4 tape drives allowed) W2K3 san media server sso to scaler 2000 David Spearman County of Henrico The information contained in this transmission is confidential. It is intended solely for the use of the individual(s) or organization(s) to whom it is addressed. Any disclosure, copying, or further distribution is not permitted unless such privilege is explicitly granted in writing by Quantum Corporation. Furthermore, Quantum Corporation is not responsible for the proper and complete transmission of the substance of this communication or for any delay in its receipt. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix
Thanks everyone for your replies, David Spearman County of Henrico -Original Message- From: David Chapa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:03 PM To: Spearman, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix Two ways...buy the partitioning license for your i2K and have a separate logical library for LTO2's and LTO3's :-) Or you can do it based on media type. HCART2 Media (LTO2) HCART3 Media (LTO3) HCART2 Storage Units HCART3 Storage Units NBU will only mount HCART2 media in an HCART2 storage unit and so on. The media can reside in the same volume pool - that won't matter, what matters is the media type and storage unit type. david From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spearman, David Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 1:17 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix We will be getting an expansion cabinet to our scaler 2000 soon. At the moment we have LTO-2 drives and tapes. When we add the expansion cabinet we are also going to add 2 LTO-3 drives with a set of LTO-3 tapes. My question is how do I keep LTO-2 tapes going to LTO-2 drives while the LTO-3 tapes go only to LTO-3 drives. I suspect a combination of storage units and tape pools but now that we are at NBU6mp4 expired tapes just return to the scratch pool which would make them available to anything. present setup W2K3 master/media with sso/ndmp to scaler 2000 (5 tape drives allowed) W2K3 media server sso to scaler 2000 and DSSU (4 tape drives allowed) W2K3 san media server sso to scaler 2000 David Spearman County of Henrico The information contained in this transmission is confidential. It is intended solely for the use of the individual(s) or organization(s) to whom it is addressed. Any disclosure, copying, or further distribution is not permitted unless such privilege is explicitly granted in writing by Quantum Corporation. Furthermore, Quantum Corporation is not responsible for the proper and complete transmission of the substance of this communication or for any delay in its receipt. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix
No - changing the media id generation rule (MEDIA_ID_BARCODE_CHARS in vm.conf) affects the media id. Changing the barcode rules (potentially) changes the media type and volume pool. Existing tapes won't be reallocated to a new pool on a barcode change - if they did then every inventory of the library would break netbackup. vmupdate(1M) only assigns attributes to new media. If we could put regexps into vmrule e.g. (made up vmrule -listall -b) barcode mediavolume max mounts/ tag type pool cleanings description -- *CU$ HC2_CLN None50 LTO Cleaning Tapes CLN DLT2_CLN None20 DLT Cleaning Tapes *L4$ HCART4 Scratch 0 LTO4 media *L3$ HCART3 Scratch 0 LTO3 media *L2$ HCART2 Scratch 0 LTO2 media NONE DEFAULT None 0 DEFAULTDEFAULT Scratch 0 -- then the world would be a better place. A trivial code change I'd bet and a feature request that's been outstanding for several years. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobby Williams Sent: 25 April 2007 18:21 To: McCammont, Anderson (IT); 'Martin, Jonathan (Contractor)'; 'Spearman, David'; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix You can't change the bar code rules like that in mid stream. It would change the media id of every tape already in the library and put every existing tape in scratch. You are going to either have to partition the drives in separate partitions (Yuk), or just pick your default tape type and add all of the other types manually (not a big deal). Existing tapes don't use the bar code rules anyway, they are already known. It is only NEW to the robot tapes that need to have a bar code rule. I have 2 i2K's with both LTO-3 and LTO-2. No big deal. I have them in the same partition. I use the LTO-3's mostly for tape to tape duplication for offsite (LTO-2 duplicated to LTO-3 works great). Most of the clients can't push data fast enough to feed the LTO-3 tapes. (Yes, I do multiplex some mid range x3 to feed tapes data). I use Staging disks to catch the really slow ones and do disk to tape staging to the LTO-3 tapes. If you put the LTO-3's in their own partition, you could not use any tape duplication between partitions. Another major headache that I have at a site with 2 separate libraries (both ADIC 1k's) is when one runs out of media, everything fails with 96 errors and then moves to the other physical library. Not a big issue until failure stats are looked at. Bobby Williams 2205 Peterson Drive Chattanooga, Tennessee 37421 423-296-8200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McCammont, Anderson (IT) Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 10:24 PM To: Martin, Jonathan (Contractor); Spearman, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix If you do this you need to take part of your six digit barcode range and dedicate it to the particular media type. It's sad that Netbackup doesn't support proper regexps in the barcode rules so that the 'L2', 'L3' (presumably) 'L4' last two digits of the barcode can be used to select the media type. We've had a feature request in for years for this and it's gone nowhere (unless 6.x does it and our rep hasn't mentioned it). rant why's there no feedback on feature requests - even when they do make it into a release you're left to scrabble round to see if it made it in there. /rant From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) Sent: 25 April 2007 03:42 To: Spearman, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix Use barcode rules and media types. LTO2 media can be hcart2 and LTO3 can be hcart3 (I think hcart stands for Half-Inch Cartridge.) NBU will never put a hcart2 tape into an hcart3 tape device. TO NBU that's as incompatible as having LTO and DLT in the same library. -Jonathan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spearman, David Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 3:17 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix We will be getting an expansion cabinet to our scaler 2000 soon. At the moment we have LTO-2 drives and tapes. When we add the expansion cabinet we are also going to add 2 LTO-3 drives with a set of LTO-3 tapes. My question is how do I keep LTO-2 tapes going to LTO-2 drives while the LTO-3 tapes go only to LTO-3 drives. I suspect a combination of storage units and tape pools but now that we are at NBU6mp4 expired
[Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix
We will be getting an expansion cabinet to our scaler 2000 soon. At the moment we have LTO-2 drives and tapes. When we add the expansion cabinet we are also going to add 2 LTO-3 drives with a set of LTO-3 tapes. My question is how do I keep LTO-2 tapes going to LTO-2 drives while the LTO-3 tapes go only to LTO-3 drives. I suspect a combination of storage units and tape pools but now that we are at NBU6mp4 expired tapes just return to the scratch pool which would make them available to anything. present setup W2K3 master/media with sso/ndmp to scaler 2000 (5 tape drives allowed) W2K3 media server sso to scaler 2000 and DSSU (4 tape drives allowed) W2K3 san media server sso to scaler 2000 David Spearman County of Henrico ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix
Use barcode rules and media types. LTO2 media can be hcart2 and LTO3 can be hcart3 (I think hcart stands for Half-Inch Cartridge.) NBU will never put a hcart2 tape into an hcart3 tape device. TO NBU that's as incompatible as having LTO and DLT in the same library. -Jonathan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spearman, David Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 3:17 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix We will be getting an expansion cabinet to our scaler 2000 soon. At the moment we have LTO-2 drives and tapes. When we add the expansion cabinet we are also going to add 2 LTO-3 drives with a set of LTO-3 tapes. My question is how do I keep LTO-2 tapes going to LTO-2 drives while the LTO-3 tapes go only to LTO-3 drives. I suspect a combination of storage units and tape pools but now that we are at NBU6mp4 expired tapes just return to the scratch pool which would make them available to anything. present setup W2K3 master/media with sso/ndmp to scaler 2000 (5 tape drives allowed) W2K3 media server sso to scaler 2000 and DSSU (4 tape drives allowed) W2K3 san media server sso to scaler 2000 David Spearman County of Henrico ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix
Do you have a mulyiple partition license for the I2k? We have a 16 partition license on ours. So far we only have the 14 LTO2 and 800 slots. Once I can convince the powers that be in the money side of things I would like to add a few LTO3 and a couple hundred slots for the LTO3 tapes. At that time I will be creating two partitions one for LTO2 and one for LTO3. Creating the partitions are not hard to do if you have the license. Doug Preston Systems Engineer Land America Tax and Flood Services Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 104 Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] NOTICE: This electronic mail transmission may constitute a communication that is legally privileged. It is not intended for transmission to, or receipt by, any unauthorized persons. If you have received this electronic mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system without copying it, and notify the sender by reply e-mail, so that our address record can be corrected. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spearman, David Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 12:17 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix We will be getting an expansion cabinet to our scaler 2000 soon. At the moment we have LTO-2 drives and tapes. When we add the expansion cabinet we are also going to add 2 LTO-3 drives with a set of LTO-3 tapes. My question is how do I keep LTO-2 tapes going to LTO-2 drives while the LTO-3 tapes go only to LTO-3 drives. I suspect a combination of storage units and tape pools but now that we are at NBU6mp4 expired tapes just return to the scratch pool which would make them available to anything. present setup W2K3 master/media with sso/ndmp to scaler 2000 (5 tape drives allowed) W2K3 media server sso to scaler 2000 and DSSU (4 tape drives allowed) W2K3 san media server sso to scaler 2000 David Spearman County of Henrico ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix
If you do this you need to take part of your six digit barcode range and dedicate it to the particular media type. It's sad that Netbackup doesn't support proper regexps in the barcode rules so that the 'L2', 'L3' (presumably) 'L4' last two digits of the barcode can be used to select the media type. We've had a feature request in for years for this and it's gone nowhere (unless 6.x does it and our rep hasn't mentioned it). rant why's there no feedback on feature requests - even when they do make it into a release you're left to scrabble round to see if it made it in there. /rant From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin, Jonathan (Contractor) Sent: 25 April 2007 03:42 To: Spearman, David; veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix Use barcode rules and media types. LTO2 media can be hcart2 and LTO3 can be hcart3 (I think hcart stands for Half-Inch Cartridge.) NBU will never put a hcart2 tape into an hcart3 tape device. TO NBU that's as incompatible as having LTO and DLT in the same library. -Jonathan From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spearman, David Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 3:17 PM To: veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix We will be getting an expansion cabinet to our scaler 2000 soon. At the moment we have LTO-2 drives and tapes. When we add the expansion cabinet we are also going to add 2 LTO-3 drives with a set of LTO-3 tapes. My question is how do I keep LTO-2 tapes going to LTO-2 drives while the LTO-3 tapes go only to LTO-3 drives. I suspect a combination of storage units and tape pools but now that we are at NBU6mp4 expired tapes just return to the scratch pool which would make them available to anything. present setup W2K3 master/media with sso/ndmp to scaler 2000 (5 tape drives allowed) W2K3 media server sso to scaler 2000 and DSSU (4 tape drives allowed) W2K3 san media server sso to scaler 2000 David Spearman County of Henrico NOTICE: If received in error, please destroy and notify sender. Sender does not intend to waive confidentiality or privilege. Use of this email is prohibited when received in error. ___ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
