Re: [Networker] Auto media management and pools?

Here's an example: if I have a pool named FUL, and one new tape with
barcode FUL103, and I have another pool named INC and one tape named
INC007 (also new), and NetWorker needs a tape for the FUL pool what
would prevent it from loading the INC007 barcoded tape and labeling it
into the FUL pool as INC007? Now I have the wrong tape labeled into the
right pool. I don't see what would prevent NetWorker from doing this
unless you segregated your pools by library or some such thing. By
pre-labeling our tapes, we prevent this from happening. How do you guys
ensure that the correct barcoded tapes are selected for the given pool?

Stan Horwitz wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, George Sinclair wrote:
>
> > If you have auto media management turned on, how can you ensure that
> > NetWorker will label the given tape into the correct pool? We used to
> > use auto media management when we had just one pool, but now that we
> > have two or more pools, we've gone to simply labeling new tapes as soon
> > as we put them in the library. These tapes do have bar codes, but this
> > way we ensure that they will be labeled into the correct pool.
> >
> > Does anyone know if there's a way to ensure that they will be labeled
> > into the correct pool with media management turned on? How will
> > NetWorker know?
>
> That depends. What do you mean by "correct pool?" Here, we have the Power
> Edition of NetWorker 6.1.1 running under Tru64 Unix 4.0f with two tape
> librarys; one a Qualstar 412600 with 600 and the other a Compaq TZ893 that
> has 263 slots. Auto media management is in use here with approx. 20 tape
> pools and I usually do not have a problem. Sometimes though, I have to
> relabel an empty (recycled) tape from one pool to the next if no other
> tape is available to do a backup into a particular pool, but that is an
> unusual situation.

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