On 05/26/2010 01:29 PM, Iverson, Jerald wrote:
> if you are replacing all drives at once, you may want to keep the media
> type the same, so that you can still read the lto3 media in the lto4
> drives (such as restoring data). the lto4 drives can also write to the
> lto3 media if need be, unless you want to write using encryption. i've
> seen it freeze the lto3 media if it loads it when wanting to write to an
> encrypted pool. if you do keep the drives the same type, then simply
> freeze all lto3 media and they shouldn't be able to be written to if
> they are "active" or even after all images expire. they will remain
> "frozen" until you unfreeze them, and then you could manually move them
> to a media pool that no backup policies use. you wouldn't need to
> change any barcode rules or backup policies.
>
> jerald
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
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> [mailto:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Martin,
> Jonathan
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:08 PM
> To: Nate Sanders
> Cc:
VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 to LTO4 conversion
>
> Barcode rules are only used when injecting new media. Your existing
> media will return to whatever pool they came from when they expire. If
> you don't want your old LTO3 media to be used anymore then change your
> media type for LTO4 to something different than what your LTO3 media
> use, and reconfigure your drives only to use that media type.
>
> I.e. - LTO3 media type hcart, LTO4 media type hcart1, drive type hcart1.
>
> NetBackup won't put an "hcart" media an "hcart1" drive.
>
> -Jonathan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Nate
> Sanders
> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 1:59 PM
> To:
judy_hinchcliffe AT administaff DOT com
> Cc:
VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 to LTO4 conversion
>
> That tiny bit of information just answered tons of questions. Thank you!
>
> So now I know how to properly handle all new incoming LTO4 tapes. And
> ensure they wind up in the LTO4 scratch pool. In order to ensure LTO3s
> wind up in a "dead pool" for old tapes, do I simply enter "L3" as the
> barcode rule? And when are these rules actually processed? I know it's
> used when injecting new tapes, but what other situations does it apply
> these rules?
>
>
> On 05/26/2010 12:16 PM,
judy_hinchcliffe AT administaff DOT com wrote:
>
>> Bar code rules can be viewed....
>> Go to the gui and act like you are going to inject tapes into your
>>
> library
>
>> Choose the radio button for update volume configuration
>> This will then un-gray the advanced options
>> Click that button and you will see a screen where you configure the
>>
> barcode rules ( you should be able to find this in the volume manger
> manual)
>
>>
>> Now the barcode rules are based on what it finds when it scans the
>>
> barcodes on the tapes.
>
>> If you lto3 tapes have a L3 in the barcode then you can make a rule
>>
> telling it
>
>> L3's go to <old pool>
>>
>>
>>
>> Make your rules and put 1 l3 and 1 l4 in the map and inject the tapes,
>>
> then see if the tapes end up in the pools you want them to.
>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>
> [mailto:
veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Nate
> Sanders
>
>> Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2010 11:12 AM
>> To:
VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
>> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 to LTO4 conversion
>>
>> Getting ready to load in the new LTO4 tapes, but I'm still having a
>>
> hard
>
>> time planning the right way to do it. I assume I can make a new LTO4
>> scratch pool that will store all my initial blank media. I disable the
>> existing scratch pool and this will ensure that only new LTO4 tapes
>>
> are
>
>> rotated into my other pools. But how do I make sure the existing LTO3
>> tapes that expire are not put back into this new LTO4 scratch pool?
>> People keep mention barcode rules/labels but I've been unable to find
>> what this means or where to view/manage these. If I were to make new
>> duplicate LTO4 pools for my other volumes (production4, ndmp4,
>>
> offsite4,
>
>> etc) would this ensure none of the existing LTO3 tapes are reused?
>>
>> I've been digging through the Media Manager (5.1) Admin manual for a
>> better understanding of how NBU uses scratch/pools and expires tapes,
>> but nothing really seems to explain how it works, just how to manage
>> general tasks. If anyone can help answer my questions and also provide
>>
> a
>
>> better place for me to focus studying on I'd appreciate it.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> On 05/03/2010 10:23 AM, Nate Sanders wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Forgive me for what may be a straight forward question, but our last
>>> backup admin has left and I'm doing my best to step up and keep our
>>> systems moving along. I'm looking for a general outline of an LTO3 to
>>> LTO4 conversion with Netbackup 5.1 (upgrading is on the list, but we
>>> can't wait to complete it). Right now we still have some LTO2 tapes,
>>>
> and
>
>>> I believe I must migrate and/or eject and store these in order to
>>> complete the conversion. Are there any other gotchas or need to knows
>>>
> I
>
>>> must be aware of?
>>>
>>> Thank you much.
>>>
>>> P.S. New member to the list, working on getting scheduled for some
>>> on-line courses.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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