Not sure if this is helpful but we write all data to the VTL and then
we apply new retentions via a script at beginning of month. On about
the 15th we begin to move data off of the VTL to a monthly pool if the
data is over 4 weeks old (our monthly data).
Alec
On 3/25/10, Brendan Forsyth <bff AT pvhs DOT org> wrote:
> Thanks for the response Matt. I understand how that could be a difficult
> situation to deal with. Fortunately, the DXi is a VTL that I can't really
> remove the tapes from anyway. Additionally I have the ability to move
> virtual tapes from library to library as needed. But I will give your
> caveat serious consideration as I move forward.
>
> Brendan Forsyth
>
>>>> Matt Temple <mht AT RESEARCH.DFCI.HARVARD DOT EDU> 3/25/2010 2:38 PM >>>
> From my sad, sad history with doing exactly this, I'd recommend that
> you don't follow this plan. In particular, with version 7.2, if you
> need to do a multi-tape restore, Legato /insists/ that all tapes be in
> the same jukebox. I found that to be very inconvenient. I can imagine
> that it might not be as much of a nuisance for you.
>
> (I had originally done this when SONY caused a huge mess by having AIT-4
> tape drives that couldn't read AIT-3 tapes, so I had different drives in
> different libraries. -- you can imagine how obnoxious /that/ turned out.)
>
> Does anyone know if newer versions of Networker have fixed this problem,
> so that restores now know about all tapes in all libraries?
>
> Matt Temple
>
> On 03/25/2010 10:40 AM, Brendan Forsyth wrote:
>> I would like to redirect my monthend backups to another jukebox at the
>> beginning of each month using pools with different retention and browse
>> times than my usual daily/weekly schedule.
>>
>> Could you point me to a resource as to how to configure this.
>>
>> NW 7.2.2
>> Quantum DXi7500 deduplication VTL
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>>
>>
>> Brendan Forsyth
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