Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT

Um... there is no such thing as HCART4. You have to decide whether you're going 
to define your LTO-4 drives as HCART3 (and risk getting all your LTO-4 media 
frozen when NetBackup puts it in an LTO-3 drive) or define your LTO-4 drives as 
HCART (and not get to use LTO-3 media in them). No, neither of those is 
attractive, which is why getting the new physical media types ("eventually"), 
which functions along a drive and media capability model rather than just 
generational tiering (Can a drive read this media? Can it write it if it's 
blank? Can it append to it at the current density (think IBM media types)? Can 
it encrypt to it?), but don't hold your breath.

As for the original poster, NetBackup labeled that media as DLT because that's 
what your barcode rules told it to do. Go fix those.


--
gabriel rosenkoetter
Radian Group Inc, Senior Systems Engineer
gabriel.rosenkoetter AT radian DOT biz, 215 231 1556


-----Original Message-----
From: A Darren Dunham [mailto:ddunham AT taos DOT com]
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2008 12:05 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO4 recognized as DLT

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 07:51:51PM -0800, Roedy boy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have added a new LTO4 drive in SL500 Tape Library with 5 existing
> LTO3 drive, I have succesfull to backup LTO3 media with LTO4 drive,
> but when i did inventory LTO4 media it's recognized as DLT media not
> HCART, is anyone know why this happened? is it necessery to patch the
> nbu ?(currently 6.5.1).

Is your LTO3 drive of type 'HCART3'?  And your LTO4 drive of type
'HCART4'?

Inventory is just done with barcodes.  Do you have a barcode rule so
that your LTO4 media is brought in as type 'HCART4'? (or whatever type you
have set your LTO4 drive to).

For instance my DEFAULT rule brings in tapes as HCART3, but I have a rule
for cleaning tapes that brings them in as HC3_CLN.

--
Darren



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