George,
Your actually correct. If you have:
a.) Recycle to/from other pools turned on for your pool or..
b.) You have blank tapes with no Networker label in the library..
and you have auto-media managment turned on.. Networker will label the
tapes for the appropriate pool no matter what the barcode. When I first
worked with this I thought the Media Template would help but Networker
does not use this..it just uses the barcode. With blank media, I've seen
Networker picks the first "-*" tape it finds in the lowest number slot...
no matter what the barcode.
I guess this makes sense , otherwise Networker would have to
read all the barcodes of the blank media and pick the appropriate barcoded
tape for a pool..a bit sophisticated for Networker.
Thus, for all my backup pools we use the same barcodes. For my clone pools
we have different barcodes but have the tapes pre-labeled in the library.
My operators then are concerned with 2 numbers..the available clone tapes
and available backup tapes (which share media between pools).
Ideally though the Legato auto-media managment model would seem to be
designed around all tapes having the same barcode.
Robert Maiello
Thomson Healthcare
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 11:33:12 -0500, George Sinclair
<George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV> wrote:
>Here's an example: if I have a pool named FUL, and one new tape with
>barcode FUL103, and I have another pool named INC and one tape named
>INC007 (also new), and NetWorker needs a tape for the FUL pool what
>would prevent it from loading the INC007 barcoded tape and labeling it
>into the FUL pool as INC007? Now I have the wrong tape labeled into the
>right pool. I don't see what would prevent NetWorker from doing this
>unless you segregated your pools by library or some such thing. By
>pre-labeling our tapes, we prevent this from happening. How do you guys
>ensure that the correct barcoded tapes are selected for the given pool?
>
>Stan Horwitz wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, George Sinclair wrote:
>>
>> > If you have auto media management turned on, how can you ensure that
>> > NetWorker will label the given tape into the correct pool? We used to
>> > use auto media management when we had just one pool, but now that we
>> > have two or more pools, we've gone to simply labeling new tapes as soon
>> > as we put them in the library. These tapes do have bar codes, but this
>> > way we ensure that they will be labeled into the correct pool.
>> >
>> > Does anyone know if there's a way to ensure that they will be labeled
>> > into the correct pool with media management turned on? How will
>> > NetWorker know?
>>
>> That depends. What do you mean by "correct pool?" Here, we have the Power
>> Edition of NetWorker 6.1.1 running under Tru64 Unix 4.0f with two tape
>> librarys; one a Qualstar 412600 with 600 and the other a Compaq TZ893 that
>> has 263 slots. Auto media management is in use here with approx. 20 tape
>> pools and I usually do not have a problem. Sometimes though, I have to
>> relabel an empty (recycled) tape from one pool to the next if no other
>> tape is available to do a backup into a particular pool, but that is an
>> unusual situation.
>
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