So, I have my drives and media set to dlt2 (I only
have DLT8000 drives on my Media server. I need to
import a tape that was written in a DLT7000. It seems
that the only way I can get one of the drives to read
the tape is to set the tape to DLT2.





--- Ang Chip Chiang   NCS <ccang AT ncs.com DOT sg> wrote:
> Actually if you are using the Device Configuration
> Wizard to configure your
> drives, you will notice that NetBackup will
> automatically assign the media
> type for a DLT8000 to dlt2 and SDLT to dlt3.
> This is due to the drives mapping file located in
> /usr/openv/volmgr/database
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William Enestvedt
> To: 'kk downing'
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Sent: 3/27/02 9:52 PM
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Drive Type dlt vs dlt2
> 
> kk downing wrote:
> >
> > I am confused how are they different media types 
> > if they are both DLT format tapes?
> >
>    You're not confused at all: they _are_ the same
> kind of physical
> media.
>    The choice is offered so that if you want to keep
> some of your tapes
> separate from others, you can define them as dlt
> instead of dlt2. (This
> distinction is like Volume Groups: no real
> difference, just an
> organizational technique.)
>    For example, say you have a robot with four
> DLT8000 drives and forty
> tape
> slots. You can define one drive as dlt2 and the
> other three drives as
> dlt.
> Perhaps you decide to add ten tapes will as dlt2 and
> the other thirty as
> dlt; when a job is sent to the dlt2 drive, it won't
> use any of the
> thirty
> dlt tapes. You could take advantage of this to keep
> backups of the same
> renention period but different uses from mingling on
> the same tape:
> handy
> for off-siting, for instance.
>     Really, it's not a big deal (unless you want to
> do this and
> couldn't!).
> Just use dlt and pretend that dlt2 ad dlt3 don't
> exist. :7)
> -wde
> P.S. If I'm wrong, could someone please correct me?
> --
> Will Enestvedt
> UNIX System Administrator
> Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI
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