Hi, Wanda:

Thank you very much for your reply.  If there is only one "tape library,"
can it consist of more than one drive?  Please forgive my ignorance.

As far as the "stringent or unusual requirements," you are probably
right.  We tend to _like_ these things to be separate, but we may
need to rethink this.  It's a learning experience for us.


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Prather* Wanda <PrathW1 AT CENTRAL.SSD.JHUAPL DOT EDU> on 10/13/97 12:00:51 PM
To: ADSM-L <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> @ INTERNET
cc:
Subject: Re: Merging ADSM Storage Pools

Unless you have some really stringent or unusal requirements about
mixing node backups on one tape,
it sounds to me like you would be much better off with one tape pool and
just turning on colocation.  You would get better usage of your disk and
tape.

Or to absolutely guarantee no mixing on the tapes, declare two different
tape storage pools.  But you can still have them live in the same tape
library.

I don't get the point of the way it is set up now, either.


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