You got it with your second paragraph.

An out-of-library tape will show up as a pending-request (vmoprcmd -d pr).
You can then fetch the tape & stuff it into your standalone drive which
should be in AVR mode.  NB will read the header on the tape & identify the
Volume ID (that's the AVR behavior).  You should then resubmit the pending
request (vmoprcmd -resubmit <num>) and the restore should continue.

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Chase [mailto:vaxzilla AT jarai DOT org]
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 3:56 PM
To: Veritas Backup
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Combination library and standalone drive setups?


I could use some pointers or advice on something related to something
I'm considering for my NetBackup installation.  We've been handling all
of our backups and restores using an automated tape library.  We'd like
to use two standalone drives for restoring data from a fairly large set
of infrequently accessed tapes.

If we kick off a restore that requires tapes that aren't in the library,
is there a way to specify that the standalone drives be used?  Or is it
just a matter of popping the correct tape into one of the standalone
drives, and NetBackup will handle the restore once it reads the on-tape
volume ID?

And sort of a follow-on question... do the standalone drives have to be
connected to the same media server as the tape library on which they
were created?  Recent discussions here tend to lead me to believe this
is the case, but I'd much rather put them on their own media server.

Thanks for any help.

-brian.
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