I don't know anything about autoloaders (haven't been using them since the 
"good old days" using 3480 under MVS.

But in the long run autoloaders could be a "dead end".
Thinking about a LTO tape that holds 200GB(or more) data I would try to go 
for a small library (eg StorageTek L20 og a little bigger)

You should have no problem in getting your different backups to use 
different drives. Just put them in different storage groups and make 
different policies that use the different storage groups.

The rotation part I can't help on that one. Never tried it and I also never 
had the need since we use a library.

/johnny

At 15:25 26-02-2003 -0600, Karl.Rossing AT Federated DOT CA wrote:
>HI,
>
>I'm thinking of getting 2 autoloaders and connecting them to our NB4.5
>server.
>
>I havn't really delt with autoloaders before.
>
>It seems that two LTO autoloaders are way cheaper than a tape library with
>two TLO tape drives.
>
>I could foresee us using 3 LTO tapes in each of the autoloaders.
>
>So i have a few questions..
>
>Can i run a 6 tape rotation across two autoloaders?
>
>Let's say I'm backing up a UNIX server with two 32GB file systems /36gb1
>and /36gb2 can i have a one autoloader backup /36gb1 and the other backup
>36GB2?
>
>What are your thoughts?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Karl
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