Not really in the architectural sense.  The logical entity used to
access tape resources from the policy perspective is a storage unit, and
NBU does not support having an STU refer to a specific drive or drives.

The only configurations that do anything like what you want are:
   - all drives on a media server are in a single STU
   - some drives are assigned a different drive type

In the former case, you still don't have the ability to control which of

drives on the media server will be used for a backup.  In the latter
case,
you will have to assign some media as being of the same type as the
drives; and you still can't guarantee which drive is used for a backup.


Netbackup shies away from being this specific because of the negative
impact on robustness in the face of drive failures.

Mark Hickey
Senior Technology Consultant
Glasshouse Technologies, Inc
www.glasshouse.com 

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From: "Cecil Hypolite" <chypolite AT comcast DOT net>
To: <Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 09:54:50 -0500
Subject: [Veritas-bu] assigning policies or pools  to specific drives

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Hi all I have a question about drives and policies. Is it possible to
assign
certain policies or pools to run only on certain drives?

Thank You all,
Cecil Hypolite