So if i just manually eject the tape its catalog information won't go
away? Or is there a command line program i run to say "this tape is going
on vacation" ?

i plan on doing the long term stuff manually. As much as this sucks, it
will only be a once per month thing.



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

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Donaldson, Mark wrote:

> 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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