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Re: [Veritas-bu] Transition from LTO1 to LTO4
2009-08-21 14:05:11
Simon,
I assume you mean "Would it not just be easier to configure one of the drives to read LTO1" ??
If so, that means that drive would *ONLY* be able to read LTO1. And assuming you never want to write new backups to LTO1, the drive would never be used for backups.
If you can spare a drive, all cool! But most can't afford to have a sparkling new LTO4 drive sitting there doing nothing. (But hang on, can LTO4 drives even read LTO1 tapes? If not, it kinda makes this point moot).
It has become a bit of a pain that that NBU won't let use more than one media type in one drive type. It always USED to make sense, but now it's just annoying, with all these different length tapes, backwards compatible drives, what have you. I'm really hoping this limitation will be remedied sometime soon!
The only thing I can think of is getting one of the LTO1 drives from the old library installed into the new library. This might not be possible - I've lost the original message of this thread, so can't see many details of the actual situation. Regardless, it would probably be relatively expensive, if not impossible/unsupportable.
Cheers,
Dean
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:38 PM, WEAVER, Simon (external) <simon.weaver AT astrium.eads DOT net> wrote:
Would it not just be easier to configure one of the drives to read LTO4
and saving space and removing the old equipment in the first place?
Or am I looking at this all wrong !
Simon
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