What I have done in the past is "downed" the drives I want to use with
tar. You can then use robtest to move tapes in and out of the drives. You
have to be careful with your "mt" and "tar" commands so as to not unload
the tape. If you unload the tape, you will have to use robtest to move
that tape back to a slot and then back into the drive. It's not without
problems, but it can be done. I sure wouldn't try and do anything
automated this way.
Bryan
Justin Piszcz <jpis...@lucidpixels.com>
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Hm,
That's a tricky one, you can set it to only use 2 drives for write, but
those drives will be 'any two drives' of the four. There may be a setting
to make sure the drives don't get used-- I have not had to do that myself.
Justin.
On Thu, 11 Mar 2010, naymyotun wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Could you please help to find out for me if it is possible for
Netbackup
> and Tape Library:
>
> If Master server manages 4 tape drive from the Tape Library,
can
> we set it in such a way that 2 tape drives will be used for
> backups run using Netbackup while another 2 tape drives are used
> for the tar command triggered from OS level? Can you also check
> if to trigger tar command from OS level, can I use any user
> account, besides Administrator & root account to handle it?
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