Yes, setting a drive to read only will prevent the device to be
used for backup operation but does not prevent the device
to be used for the read part of the clone operation. 

If you want to be sure the device will never be used nor for backup 
and nor for clone purposes, you have to select (in clone pools) 
all the devices that may be used for cloning EXCEPTED the 
"forced read-only" ones you want to keep idle for recover.

Another alternative is to set them in "read-only" and "serviced"
without altering pool cfgs. When needed, just put them back "enabled"

HTH,

Th  





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-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Ciolek, Ken
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 7:42 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Restore-only tape drive setting?

We do the same here. Set one of the drives to REAS ONLY.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU]
On Behalf Of Stan Horwitz
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 1:38 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Restore-only tape drive setting?

On Mar 15, 2006, at 1:16 PM - 3/15/06, John Ryder wrote:

> We have a client who wants to restore during a busy backup/cloning  
> period
> and I'd like to reserve a tape drive for his use so he can get his  
> tapes
> mounted in a timely fashion.  I don't see a "restore-only" setting  
> in the
> tape device definition, but I do see a "read only". That will help  
> some,
> but has anyone else found a way to reserve a drive for restores?

Setting one drive to read only should accomplish what you want.  
That's what I do here and it works out well.

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