Speaking of DEVICE vs MEDIA

When I first started into this archiving/backup thing, I made a few
rookie mistakes.

One of which was putting LTO-1 labels on LTO-2 tapes.

Fortunately the ADIC library was smarter than the label.

Unfortunately Networker was not.

Between the two of them, I had software that did not recognize the media
properly but I had a library that did. When I told anyone from tech
support about the label 000001 LT1 and then told them I had 500GB of
data on one tape they questioned me.

/ALE

> -----Original Message-----
> On Behalf Of Olaf Zaplinski
> 
> Stuart Whitby wrote:
>  > Out of interest, what happens if you a) manually label an 
> LTO1 volume for  > this pool
> 
> Then it starts staging.
> 
>  > b) set the LTO2 drive to service mode, c) disable the LTO2 
>  > drive?
> 
> I will check that if I will have the time to do so.
> 
> Hmm, so then it depends upon the device and not the media? 
> That would be worth opening a case, I think -- this behaviour 
> is simply not logical. It means that I have to sit here, 
> staring at nsrwatch and waiting until it is asking for more volumes.

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