Simon, I assume you mean "Would it not just be easier to configure one of the drives to read LTO1" ??
If so, that means that drive would *ONLY* be able to read LTO1. And assuming you never want to write new backups to LTO1, the drive would never be used for backups. If you can spare a drive, all cool! But most can't afford to have a sparkling new LTO4 drive sitting there doing nothing. (But hang on, can LTO4 drives even read LTO1 tapes? If not, it kinda makes this point moot). It has become a bit of a pain that that NBU won't let use more than one media type in one drive type. It always USED to make sense, but now it's just annoying, with all these different length tapes, backwards compatible drives, what have you. I'm really hoping this limitation will be remedied sometime soon! The only thing I can think of is getting one of the LTO1 drives from the old library installed into the new library. This might not be possible - I've lost the original message of this thread, so can't see many details of the actual situation. Regardless, it would probably be relatively expensive, if not impossible/unsupportable. Cheers, Dean On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:38 PM, WEAVER, Simon (external) < simon.wea...@astrium.eads.net> wrote: > Would it not just be easier to configure one of the drives to read LTO4 > and saving space and removing the old equipment in the first place? > > Or am I looking at this all wrong ! > Simon > > -----Original Message----- > From: veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > [mailto:veritas-bu-boun...@mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Dennis > Peacock > Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:23 PM > To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Transition from LTO1 to LTO4 > > > Why not keep your old library for historical restores and put in your > new LTO-4 library for current and future backups/restores? Would be > easier and less trouble over time. [Wink] > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by dpe...@acxiom.com via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu > > This email (including any attachments) may contain confidential > and/or privileged information or information otherwise protected > from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please > notify the sender immediately, do not copy this message or any > attachments and do not use it for any purpose or disclose its > content to any person, but delete this message and any attachments > from your system. Astrium disclaims any and all liability if this > email transmission was virus corrupted, altered or falsified. > -o- > Astrium Limited, Registered in England and Wales No. 2449259 > Registered Office: > Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, SG1 2AS, England > _______________________________________________ > Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu@mailman.eng.auburn.edu > http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu >
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