I am amazed at the amount of anger and abuse present in Mr. Heuer's reply.
No matter what the question...  Get a life and learn some manners!

~Andrea H. Yager
Liberty Mutual
Portsmouth, NH
USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Sanscartier [SMTP:msansc01 AT ENG.EDS DOT COM]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 1998 9:19 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: howto backup to tape
>
> I think you could still make your point with a little kindness.
> It wouldn't hurt.
>
> Mary Sanscartier
>
> Christo Heuer wrote:
> >
> > Go and look up on device class in your administrator manuals - there
> > is a difference between being a newbie to ADSM (something we were
> > all at sometime in the past - some longer than others!), and just being
> > to lazy to read and learn!!!
> >
> > Hope I'm not the only one feeling like this?
> >
> > Should this list be the ADSM classroom for all newbies?
> >
> > Cheers (And yes - this is supposed to be harsh...)
> >
> > Christo Heuer
> > Johannesburg
> > South Africa
> >
> > >Hi all:
> > >
> > >    I  am new to ADSM. I have installed ADSM server at one of the
> machine.
> > >      And is able to access it thru webpage.
> > >
> > >I wish to backup to tape. The default is to disk. How should I go
> about?
> > >
> > >I guess tape is sequential access storage pool. thus I add tape in it.
> But
> > >      it asked for device_class_name. I do not know what
> > >
> > >should I put in that field.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Please advise.