That's exactly what I want to do with the Groups. I also hope to be able to
use them to generate lists of media that needs to go offsite, but for this I
need groups assigned when the volume is created.
I can do it by pool and robotic location, but groups would allow me to
fine-tune it better.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Chapa" <david.chapa AT adic DOT com>
To: "James Wood" <jwood AT apa.qwest DOT net>; "Veritas"
<veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 7:11 AM
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] WHat is the method and impact of changing volume
groups?


> James:
>
> The impact of "moving" your volume groups around to different names,
> etc. will have little or no impact on your NetBackup installation
> functionally speaking....
>
> <<UNLESS>>
>
> You are running VERITAS Vault.  VERITAS Vault depends on the volume
> groups along with criteria of the media to track the location/condition
> of the media.
>
> Volume Groups independent of Vault are merely used for administrative
> purposes.  The only criteria for media to be the member of a Volume
> group is that they all must share the same residence.  For example,
> volume group ONSITE may have 30 tapes that have just been returned from
> my offsite vendor, but they are not yet loaded into my tape library and
> as such their residence would be Standalone (or NONE, NON-ROBOTIC, etc.)
> If I chose to move only one of those 30 into the library it's volume
> group would have to change because it no longer shared the residence of
> the remaining 29.
>
> You are right; the use of volume groups can greatly increase the
> usability of the product.  For example if you are using volume groups to
> track the location of the media and a restore is requesting a piece of
> media that is not resident in the tape library it will generate a
> pending request.  You will be able to use your device monitor or cli
> equivalent (vmoprcmd -d pr) to view the pending requests to see what
> volume group this tape is a member of.
>
> VOLGRP         LOCATION
> OFFSITE        Arcus
> CABINET        Onsite - Tape cab
> ONSITE         Onsite from Arcus not inventoried to cabinet
>
> I hope that helps
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Wood [mailto:jwood AT apa.qwest DOT net]
> Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 7:22 PM
> To: Veritas
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] WHat is the method and impact of changing volume
> groups?
>
> I think I can better automate some functions with volume groups. Until
> now,
> they have been assigned with no purpose in mind, and are quite chaotic.
>
> 1) What would be the impact of changing groups of pools to a specific
> volume
> pool?
> Such as: "daily-off-1" thru "daily-off-10" all active volumes changed to
> the
> "daily-off" volume group. They are currently assigned to a variety of
> volume
> groups, or none at all. Many are offsite as the name implies.
>
> 2) Can I do this without having to recall the volumes? It would be best
> to
> apply this retroactively to all active volumes. Not necessary, just
> better.
> how do I do it?
>
> 3) If I assign the classes to be put into the specific volume groups,
> this
> will not effect the current pools, will it? Meaning, there will be no
> change
> in name and classification of the volume pools produced hereafter, just
> that
> they also have the same volume group assigned. How is this done? (I
> think I
> have this one figured out, I wish to compare what I have to what you
> folks
> say. Gauge my progress, so to speak.)
>
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