Bob
I have a scratch pool defined. Any tapes NetBackup does not know about goes
into this pool.
But in the larger world, there is no harm creating a volume pool called
IMPORT_ASTRIUM, moving the tapes into this pool and starting the import
process.

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

EADS Astrium Limited, B32AA IM (DCS)
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-----Original Message-----
From: bob944 [mailto:bob944 at attglobal.net] 
Sent: 07 June 2006 14:06
To: WEAVER, Simon; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] RE: import requirements (was: 3 Quest...)


> Bob
> Correct, in order to do any import, thte tape MUST be known
> by NetBackup, however if its expired,

That betrays your mindset (not beating up on you, just pointing out that
you're thinking in terms of your "current system and 3-year-old tape"
scenario; I'm encouraging you to think bigger-picture, more generally: EADS
Astrium and Simon Weaver do not exist any more; but a pile of your offsite
tapes are being brought to my computer room.  "Expiration" has no meaning in
this context--I know _nothing_ about them.  The inventory process is how
those tapes become known to my NetBackup domain.

> my guess is, the tape ends up in SCRATCH, as it
> treats it as a NEW tape, even though we need to use it for import.

Perhaps you have a barcode rule that puts anything it finds into a SCRATCH
pool, but that is only because you have set it up that way.  You can add new
media to any pool you want, so I'm going to create the EADS_Astrium pool and
use the inventory process to put those 200 tapes into that pool.  See
Advanced Robot Inventory Options | Media Settings | Volume Pool.  BTW, I'd
be putting these tapes in write-protect if they weren't that way already.

> I recall something along the lines of creating a pool called NBCC or 
> something like that.... A pool that you move the tape to for the 
> import process. I think the special pool created is treated as a safe 
> pool.
> 
> Would this sound right to you as part of your BBP method :-)

No, that would be somebody's convention.  ("NBCC" usually means "NetBackup
Consistency Check", BTW.)  No pools that you can create are in any way
special (though the "scratch" attribute can be assigned to one pool).

Again, it'll be much more productive to just _do_ it.  One experiment trumps
a hundred speculative emails to a list.

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