The tapes for the SDLT and the DLT8000 are incompatible and cannot be
written to by both drives so you will need to be adding 2 different types
of DLT tapes into your library and assigning the DLT and SDLT media
different media types. So now when your backup runs there is no way to
tell the backup to use this drive over the other one, it's either use both
drives equally, or use one drive and not the other.

I am curious as to why you got the 2 different drives in your library tho,
as I recall SDLT drives can read DLT tapes so you would not have had a
problem reading your old backups for restores.

Jason Cordes
IS Administrator
jason.cordes AT enbridge DOT com
713-821-2291


-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Dan Dobbs
Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:49 AM
To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] adding another robot to my environment

Greetings, list. 

I currently have a 4-drive DLT juke, and I'm adding a second robot
(Overland Neo 2000) with a SDLT and a DLT8000. I'm verifying how
existing policies should use my cool new 'bot. I'm thinking I can change
the 'destination storage unit' to my new robot and create a new pool,
and life will be good. Is there something else I should be doing? 

Also, can I create a new storage unit that has both the SDLT and the
regular DLT, with a 'use the SDLT, but if you run out of scratch tapes,
use the DLT' type of setup?

Sorry if this isn't all that coherent. It's still early in Seattle.
:>)

Thanks in advance,

-dd
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