cpreston wrote:
> I guess my question is to question the requirement to do this. I've never
> been a fan of "special backups going to special tapes."  I'm relatively OK
> with segregating backups (e.g. Oracle on its own tapes, etc), but who cares
> what backups go to what tapes?  Just let NBU put it on whatever tape it
> wants to be on and then let it track them.  Why force certain backups to
> certain barcodes?  Historically, when I find people doing this, they look
> and they find that they're doing it cause the guy before did it, and the guy
> before him did it, and the guy before him did it cause he liked the color
> blue.
> 
> So why do you have this requirement?
> 
> 
> Trust me I am not a fan of doing this either. As it is right now it is a 
> business requirement as this is data that our client asks to have on its own 
> hardware and this has been directed to be done by management. 
> 
> Being this wont really work how I like and is honestly a big pain to deal 
> with I am going to try approaching this a little different with management 
> and see if they bite. I am hoping just using pools will be enough.
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> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Special Tapes to policies
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> 
> I had a vision and it didnt turn out exactly how I intended it.  (NBU 5.1
> MP5upgrading soon Windows centric environment)
> 
> I have the need to write certain data to only specific tapes. Those tapes
> are designated by a two digit code at the front of the tape. I have policies
> that I need to write to these tapes but I would like them to be able to drop
> in different pools based on retention (daily, weekly ect). Currently I have
> the tapes going to pool X and using barcode rules the tapes are assigned to
> that pool. Those polices are set to write only to pool X.
> 
> What I would rather have to I can still see daily, weekly and so on pools is
> those tapes drop into the scratch pool but can only be used by those
> specific policies. I tried this and wasnt able to get it to work as the
> policies would grab any scratch tapes and for business reasons this cant
> happen.
> 
> Any ideas here?
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