Every Sunday, before the backup, run a script that figures out what
volume is in the drive. Unmount it and mark it as full. When the
backup runs, it will have to mount the next tape.
This should work:
#!/bin/ksh
# unmount whatever is in tape drive 1
nsrjb -u -f /dev/rmt0.1
# mark the volume full that was last written to
nsrjb -o full -Y `mminfo -r volume`
exit
>Hi There,
>
>Without "drawing" out a what you want to do and without knowing Legato
5.5
>by heart (by the way is there a reason that you are running this old
version
>of Legato??).
>
>You can get your backups to go only a certain pool and backup in a
certain
>way:
>
>Assuming that you are keeping all of your tapes in the library and you
want
>to make sure that the second week's data goes to the second tape:-
>
>I would think that you would need to have a group and a pool for each
tape.
>
>It is a little bit involved: You would have 4 groups (only way that I
know
>of to send the data to a seperate pool) and you will have 4 seperate
>"pools".
>
>You will as well have to have a schedule for each of these groups,
i.e. 1st
>group's schedule will backup Full Sunday and inc rest of week - then
skip
>for 3 weeks before it repeats the same process (yes this will have to
be
>manually setup).
>
>Second group will then use a seperate schedule, (with the same
clients) ..
>skip first week, backup second ..
>
>And the third and the fourth ...
>
>NORMALLY: We would just set up one group, with one schedule (that is
easy to
>setup) and make all of the tapes part of one pool. Setup a retention
period
>of say 3 weeks (then it gets recycled the fourth) and then you would
>"manually" remove Tape 1 the end of week one, put it on a shelf /
offsite
>for 3 weeks, Tape 2 would then be used the second week, take that out
the
>beginning of week3 etc.
>
>There are afew more things that you need to be aware of (liek if you
have 4
>tapes in the library all belongign to the same pool then Legato will
use the
>second tape, if it is availabe and the first is full).
>
>But I digress ....
>
>Regards,
>
>Riaan
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Franklin Sagayno [mailto:fsagayno AT PBC.CO DOT JP]
>>Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2003 11:13 AM
>>To: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
>>Subject: [Networker] Day of week setting for autoloader
>>
>>
>>Hello All,
>>
>>I've pondering this problem for quite some time. It's been a long
while
>>since I got back being a Legato Administrator. I appreciate if
someone can
>>teach me how to solve my problem. My problem is that, I have an old 5
tapes
>>DLT autoloader. One of the tapes is being used as a cleaning tape,
basically
>>I have only 4 active rotational tape to use. I want to use the tape
so that
>>the first tape will have a full backup during sunday and incremental
other
>>days for first week (assuming first week start on Sunday). During the
2nd
>>week ( 2nd Sunday), the 2nd tape will be used, and full backup on
Sunday and
>>incremental other days. During the 3rd week (3rd Sunday), again this
will be
>>full backup and other days incremental. This will be also true on the
4th
>>tape which will have a full backup on the 4th Sunday and incremental
other
>>days. This will repeat to the 1st tape on the 5th week and so on. My
>>question is, can this be done in Legato 5.5 and how.
>>
>>
>>Thank you to all, anyones help is highly appreciated.
>>
>>
>>TIA,
>>
>>Frank
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Jim McAlarney Huber Engineered
Materials
phone: 404-949-5505 4401 Northside
Parkway
fax: 404-949-1305 Suite 600
jmcalarney AT huber DOT com Atlanta, GA 30327
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