I stand corrected, ahh too many things going on at
once...
Thanks bob
Quoting Bob Bakh <bbakh AT veritas DOT com>:
> Actually you would not need separate media servers
just separate Storage
> Units, Storage Units are Media type specific. So a
9840 and DLT and AIT
> could reside in the same library attached to the same
system, with one tape
> pool, one Volume Group, but 3 Storage Units.
>
> You will also want two different Storage Units if you
mix DLT 7000 and DLT
> 4000, because you really don't want those tapes
mixing, that is why there
> are DLT, DLT2 and in 3.4 DLT3 tape types in NBU.
>
> Bob
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David A. Chapa [mailto:david AT datastaff DOT com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 12:47 PM
> To: KevinB AT paccessglobal DOT com
> Cc: david AT datastaff DOT com; mike_andres AT cnt DOT com;
> veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] NBU support for mixed media
>
>
> You are right, NetBackup doesn't care about what is
> contained within the physical robot. It only becomes
> concerned when you begin to logically create the
> storage units. For instance, Media Server (1) having
> all DLT technology in its storage unit and Media
Server
> (2) having all 9840. They can be in the same physical
> tape library, but must be in separate storage units by
> definition. But I believe you do need to have
multiple
> media servers.
>
> This configuration is quite common in larger sites.
>
> Incidentally with regards to the media question,
> netbackup tracks that based on the robot residence
> (such as TLD(0) TLD(1), etc.), therefore, it knows
> where the tapes belong. Furthermore, from an
> administrative point of view a descriptive volume pool
> or volume group would probably help in this matter as
> well.
>
> David
>
> Quoting KevinB AT paccessglobal DOT com:
>
> > I have not done this (or known anyone that has) so I
> am not trying say this
> > can be done, but why should NBU care if you have
> different media/drives in
> > the same robot. When you configure each drive in
the
> robot you have to
> > define what type of drive it is. It would seem that
> the only issue would
> > be
> > knowing which slot contained which type of media.
In
> a dream world the
> > robot should track that and pass it on to NBU. In a
> practical work around
> > world, it would seem that if you set up separate
> pools or volume groups for
> > the different media it would work. Has anyone tried
> it? It seems that
> > with
> > different drive technologies coming on and HSM
> available this would be an
> > important feature.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David A. Chapa [mailto:david AT datastaff DOT com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 10:08 AM
> > To: Mike Andres
> > Cc: 'Veritas NBU'
> > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] NBU support for mixed
media
> >
> >
> > Ture, you may only have similar physical devices
> within
> > a storage unit. You're assumption is correct.
> >
> > David
> >
> > Quoting Mike Andres <mike_andres AT cnt DOT com>:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Does anyone know if NBU supports mixed media
> > (9840 and 9490) in an STK
> > > Powderhorn library? Would you just set up a
> > different storage unit for
> > > each
> > > drive type?
> > >
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > -mike
> > >
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