Michael,

I would suggest that a better option might be a DSSU
for this purpose- you get no mount/unmout time,
typically faster throughput for both backups and
restores, and you can control how often the DSSU
destages to tape.

Tom Burrell
tburrell_mn at yahoo.com

--- "Sponsler, Michael" <Michael.Sponsler at ngc.com>
wrote:

> All,
> Is there a way to have netbackup keep the tape in
> drive of a robotic
> library?  I'm doing hourly backups of the Oracle
> Archive Log, and the
> tape gets unmounted and put back into it's slot
> after the backup is
> completed.  Is there a way to tell netbackup to keep
> the tape in the
> drive until the tape is full?  We did that with
> Legato, and now the we
> have moved to netbackup we are concerned about the
> wear and tear on the
> tape drive.  Since it's constantly mounting and
> unmounting the same
> tape.
>  
> --
> Mike Sponsler
> Northrop Grumman
> Michael.Sponsler at ngc.com.
>  
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