> This sounds promising-- how did you deal with the mixed media issue
> though, certainly you cannot have a scratch pool with both types of
> scratch etc?

Yes you can, if you can make out the picture you'll see we have two types in there. But I have resent without this time as the message was too big. I'll send it straight to you.

> How did you lay down that part?

Nothing special, added an inventory rule to add new tapes of that type to the scratch pool and they appear. No voodoo involved.

> And which version of NetBackup did you do this with?

6.0MP4

cheers

Dominik

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, 26 February 2008 10:11 AM
To: Dominik Pietrzykowski
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] SL8500 Question (Different media generations)

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Dominik Pietrzykowski wrote:

>
> Hi Justin,
>
> Not exactly sure what you want to do but we originally had just T10K in our
> library and have added the "old faithful" 9940Bs. I might add some LTO3/4s
> later. As long as you have the drive types and tape types right you won't
> have any issue. You should not need partitioning unless you want to use
> separate masters. But then you could separate these in EMM and no
> partitioning needed.
>
> All you need to do is, get drives added to 8500, make them visible in ACSLS,
> update vol_attr file, get netbackup to see them and that's it really.
> Shouldn't take more than an hour or two. But first time I did it was a bit
> longer than that. I had issues adding the drives in ACSLS but that's because
> I had no idea how to.
>
> Dominik

This sounds promising-- how did you deal with the mixed media issue though,
certainly you cannot have a scratch pool with both types of scratch etc?

How did you lay down that part?

And which version of NetBackup did you do this with?

Thanks!

Justin.

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