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Cris Robinson
Sr. Technical Analyst
Enterprise Storage Management / ADSM
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
603.431.8400.54837
mailto:cris.robinson AT libertymutual DOT com

Dilbert words of Wisdom:
Accept that some days you're the pigeon,
and some days you're the statue!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kelly J. Lipp [SMTP:lipp AT STORSOL DOT COM]
> Sent: Monday, May 10, 1999 12:18 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Sharing a tape library with multiple ADSM Servers
>
> Yes to the first question and no to the second.
>
> When configuring a system like this, you will want to have two distinctly
> separate pools of tapes.  We recommend tapes with different barcode
> prefixes to help your operations staff.  Then you must ensure when you
> place tapes in the library you check them in correctly.  Since the two
> servers don't know of each other's tapes, it is possible for you to check
> in as scratch a private volume from the other server.  Needless to say,
> this isn't good as that tape can be taken from the scratch pool and
> written
> on, thus destroying the other node's data.
>
> Tape manipulation is hard enough within ADSM.  This is even harder, so be
> careful.
>
> Kelly J. Lipp
> Storage Solutions Specialists, Inc.
> www.storsol.com
> lipp AT storsol DOT com
> (719)531-5926
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Joseph Vicini
> Sent:   Monday, May 10, 1999 9:41 AM
> To:     ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:        Sharing a tape library with multiple ADSM Servers
>
> Is anyone successfully sharing a single tape library with multiple direct
> attached ADSM Servers ?
> Can the ADSM servers share a single scratch pool ?