On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 08:36:13 -0400, Stan Horwitz <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote:

>The Legato 6.1.3 server I manage runs on Solaris 9 with a Qualstar tape
>library. All 12 tape drives in this library are connected via SCSI to the
>Legato server. This same server runs SnapImage so we can back up some NDMP
>clients to our tape library instead of having to have a tape library local
>to those NDMP clients.
>
>We just got another NDMP client (and another Legato NDMP license) so I
>want to allocate an additional tape drive in our Qualstar library to NDMP
>service.
>
>As far as I can tell, the only way to do this is to delete the tape
>library resource and all the tape drive entries in Legato, then recreate
>them with jbconfig, but that is an onerous task. I am looking for a better
>way of taking a tape drive resource in Legato and converting it to NDMP.
>
>If anyone has any ideas, please let me know.

Hi Stan,

No you don't need to re-run jbconfig, you can change a single device in a
jukebox from nwadmin. The complication here is that you're probably going
to be re-defining the same device with different attributes. What you'll
need to do is to first create a dummy device, perhaps just a file device.
Amend the jukebox resource to swap the old device with the dummy device.
Then delete the old device and redefine it as an NDMP device. Then you can
swap it back over in the jukebox and delete the dummy. Much simpler than re-
running jbconfig.

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