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Re: [ADSM-L] TS3500/3584 Partitioning Options?

2007-11-01 15:13:51
Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TS3500/3584 Partitioning Options?
From: William Boyer <bjdboyer AT COMCAST DOT NET>
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:13:19 -0400
The barcode labels came with the library and the clips for the tape slot 
columns. I don't remember how many different partitions you
can create from them as they are pre-labeled. I think 4. I'm not where I can go 
in a look at our 3584. The "clip" for the drives is
on the front of the drive. You just put the partition label at the top of the 
storage column(s) and drives and tell the library to
automatically partition. I believe then it creates a control point on the first 
drive in each partition. When you place the
clip/barcode on the top of the storage column I believe it also affects the 
corresponding storage column on the door.

Why the Datafort device and not LTO4/TS1120 drives? Just curious, not 
critisizing your decision. You need to make sure you have a
Datafort for your D/R site. I had a client looking in to this and Sungard said 
that they would have to purchase an 2nd Datafort to
keep at Sungard for D/R. Sungard wouldn't let them bring it in for an exercise. 
That pushed the cost for them over the budget and
now they're doing client-side encryption for those critical files.

Bill Boyer
"Backup my harddrive? How do I put it in reverse?" - ??


-----Original Message-----
From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU] On Behalf Of 
Nick Laflamme
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 2:50 PM
To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: Re: TS3500/3584 Partitioning Options?

OK, I get to read about bar code labels and try to make this work for us. It's 
nice that it's possible; if not so nice that the
granularity on how slots are assigned is a bit more coarse and that it'll be 
some work putting labels and clips into place. Oh,
well!

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction, Tom.

Thanks,
Nick

Kauffman, Tom wrote:
> Unless things have changed in a more recent firmware than I'm running
> (always possible) there are three ways to partition a 3584; the web
> interface, the operator panel, and the barcode labels.
>
> The web interface and the front panel both work the same -- how many
> drives, starting with number 1, are in the first library; how many
> drives are in the second; until all drives are assigned to librarys.
> And the same with slots, starting with the first slot and working out.
>
> If you want to have a dis-continuous library, with something like
> drives 1,2,4,and 8 or slots in multiple groups you will need to use
> the barcode labels and magnetic clips that came with the library.
> IIRC, tape drives are individually assignable and slots are assigned by the 
> column.
>
> Tom Kauffman
> NIBCO, Inc
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