> We have a Sun-branded L20 robot with 2 LTO-1 drives.
>
> I would like to force tapes on to a specific drives for diagnostic purposes
> (trying to reproduce a tape error).
>
> This is actually in bpduplicate, so it's not simply a matter of DOWNing one
> of the drives.
>
> I have tried physically pre-mounting the tapes, but Netbackup perversely
> unloads them and remounts them
> according to its own will or whim (the opposite way round in this case).
>
> I tried mounting the tapes with tpreq, but that doesn't seem to work.
> (It seems to keep them reserved, so bpduplicate (or anything else) can't use
> them until unmounted with tpunmount).
>
> (Anyone know what tpreq is actually intended for?)
>
>
> What algorithm (if any) does Netbackup use for choosing a drive for a
> specific mount?
>
> Is this configurable? (this rang a vague bell), but I couldn't find anything
> useful looking in bp.conf documentation
> (or would it be vm.conf...?).
>
> I am running (don't laugh) 3.4, on Solaris 5.8 .
>
>
> With thanks,
>
> Mike E.
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