Depends what you're trying to accomplish.

What's your goal? To prevent the INF jobs from using up too many tapes?

Paul

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com] 
> Sent: February 13, 2007 12:31 PM
> To: Paul Keating
> Cc: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Newbie volume pool question.
> 
> 
> Paul,
> 
> Would the best solution then to be NOT define a global 
> scratch pool and 
> allocate scratch tapes into their respective (FILESYSTEM) and 
> (INFINITE) 
> volume pools?
> 
> Justin.
> 
> On Tue, 13 Feb 2007, Paul Keating wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, you can't really "not" pick tapes from scratch, if you have a
> scratch pool defined.
> 
> Sure you can override the Policies default pool in the 
> schedule, but if
> there are no tapes in that pool, it will pull from the global scratch.
> 
> Paul
> 
> -- 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu 
> > [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf 
> > Of Justin Piszcz
> > Sent: February 13, 2007 10:39 AM
> > To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Newbie volume pool question.
> > 
> > 
> > I had done this in the past but it has been awhile, I am 
> checking the 
> > documentation now.
> > 
> > But I was wondering if someone could point to the page or 
> > give me a little 
> > reminder of how to do this.
> > 
> > I have the following:
> > 
> > FS-1
> > FS-2
> > 
> > INF-1
> > INF-2
> > 
> > I want the FS (filesytem backups) to use tapes from the 
> > global scratch 
> > pool, no issues here.
> > 
> > I want the INF (infinite-retention backups) to use a separate 
> > pool, and 
> > when that pool runs out of tapes, it will NOT use any tapes 
> from the 
> > global scratch pool.
> > 
> > I just define overrides in the schedule to pick from a new 
> > pool I make and 
> > put scratch tapes in correct?
> > 
> > INF-SCRATCH
> > 
> > And then in the schedule policy information I override the 
> > volume pool and 
> > make it INF-SCRATCH, correct?
> > 
> > Am I forgetting anything?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Justin.
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