The trouble with a "long term" tape is getting it in before the backup
starts.

If you use a scratch pool and the "long term" tape isn't available, then NB
will just grab a scratch tape and create a new one.  You'll end up with a
lot of half-filled long-term tapes.  If you can control, therefore, the
scheduling of the long-term backups and the tape availability through an
external process, then you'll be ahead.

Tapes, however, removed from a library or loader are still tracked normally.
Restores from tapes that are out of reach will generate a pending request
that has to be manually handled.

-M

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Lowenstein [mailto:dlowenst AT mail.sdsu DOT edu]
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 11:06 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting without vault?


I have nb business server 4.5 fp3 and a small autoloader with 9 tapes. I
am interested in removing some tapes from the autoloader and replacing
them with blanks. When I need to do a long term backup I would like to
then like to put in the 'long term' tape for the duration of the backup,
and then remove it again, replacing it with the prior tape.

how do i do this without accidentally deleting tapes?

is it possible to remove tapes from the loader but keep them in the
catalog?


Dave Lowenstein
Analyst/Programmer
Instructional Technology Services
San Diego State University
(619)594-0270
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/its


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