> We're implementing a san for our tape drives and I was just
> wondering where most of you guys have robotic control?  We
> currently use one of the media servers, but once we have the
> SAN configured I understand it can also be on the master.  I
> hesitatae to put it there because our master is attached to
> a different (disk) SAN for the catalog disks, so if I move
> robotic control to the master I have to add another HBA and
> burn another port on the switch.  Anyone have any compelling
> reasons to move it to the master?

If you have more than one media server (including a master which is also
a media server), the only one that matters:  if the master is down,
you're not doing any backups anyway, so losing the robotics is moot; if
a media is down, you can still do some or all of your backups.



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