Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] mounting lto3 tapes to lto4

2009-07-02 15:24:13
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] mounting lto3 tapes to lto4
From: A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT taos DOT com>
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 19:21:02 +0000
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 10:26:52AM -0400, X_S wrote:

> we're planning on replacing our LTO3 drives with LTO4s entirely
> but want to utilize the many LTO3 tapes that we still have.  The
> problem that we have is that Netbackup sees these tapes as different
> media types/densities because ACSLS provides it that way and therefore
> i can't mount "hcart3" tapes into an "hcart" type storage unit in
> Netbackup.  Has anyone experienced this and know of a workaround?

I don't understand how ACSLS forces this.  Can't you override it and
tell NBU that its the same drive type as the LTO3 was?  

-- 
Darren
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