We use them and they are supported. 

The hcart is just a string pattern for matching a tape cart to a tape drive, so 
you can use any one you want. 

It is bad that netbackup only lets one assign one hcartx to a tape drive and 
does not allow a site to pick their own   device-type strings other than hcart, 
or hcart2 or hcart3. 

Netbackup at one time accepted a request to add this support, but it seems to 
have gone away with the increased support for smart disk  storage.

For example you could define lto-4 and lto-3 and lto-5 tape carts

Then a lto-5 tape drive could be defined as lto-5 and lto-4 and lto-3 as all 
three tape carts could be used in the tape drive.

The interesting part to think about is the relationship in that the lto-3 can 
only be read. So maybe the device-type could have more than just the string 
pattern when used for the tape drive. So you might have some attribute such as 
readonly. Maybe writeonly for worm tape carts.

len

-----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 Justin 
Piszcz
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 6:33 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] NetBackup w/IBM LTO-5 Question

Hi,

I was reviewing:
http://www.symantec.com/business/support/resources/sites/BUSINESS/content/live/TECHNICAL_SOLUTION/76000/TECH76495/en_US/nbu_7x_hcl.pdf

I only see the HP LTO-5 drives in this document.

Can anyone confirm if IBM LTO-5 tape drives are supported with NBU 7.0.1?

Is anyone using them?
If so, what 'hcart' are they defined as?

Justin.
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