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[Veritas-bu] Restore-only tape drives?

2004-03-24 22:26:12
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restore-only tape drives?
From: jimh AT federaledge DOT com (Jim Horalek)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 19:26:12 -0800
Interesting.
Add up all the tape drives used in all your storage units.
Total must be less than the total number of actual drives.


-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:19 PM
To: Isidro Rodriguez
Cc: List Veritas List
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore-only tape drives?


On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 06:01:47PM -0500, Isidro Rodriguez wrote:
> Look at your Storage Unit Max concurrent drives and set it to one 
> less.

Unfortunately I have 3 storage units since I've got 3 media servers.  If I
drop a drive from each, they could still overlap.  Am I missing something
here?

Thanks,
        .../Ed
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 5:51 PM
> To: List Veritas List
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restore-only tape drives?
> 
> 
> I've asked my local Veritas systems engineer this, and he hasn't found 
> an answer for me yet.  How can I set up a drive that is dedicated to 
> restores?  We've run into multiple cases where we need to do a restore 
> and all the drives in the library are in use.  I'd like the ability to 
> dedicate one drive solely to restores, perhaps for nearline 
> applications or for general restores.  We're still at 4.5FP6, 3 media 
> servers (including the master), and SSO..

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