On 12/06/10 16:23, James Pratt wrote:
> hi our primary vtl died this weekend, so i've moved all our primary
> networker backups to write to our secondary (clone) VTL - i changed the
> pool types from "Backup Clone" to "Backup", and checked "Save Index
> Entries" (I dont' care about losing clones, i need primary backups
> working for now)
> 
> I did not change the default label for the pool however, i left it at
> the old setting as I assumed i would have to re-label all my tapes,
> which I really don't have time for... 
> 
> At first, I thought this seemed to all be working fine, backups work etc
> etc... but ... i've noticed it's running a bootstrap backup on every
> backup ... any ideas why or how to stop that?
> 

That looks like a strange way to deal with the problem. Why didn't you
just label some tapes into your normal backup pool on the secondary library?

And label templates? Surely you would be using "match barcodes" in a VTL?

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