Philippe Michel wrote:
>
> Franklin Sagayno wrote:
> >
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Is there any setting in Legato Networker that I can backup data 1 tape per
> > day. That is I can set slot1 to be Monday, Slot2 Tuesday, and so on. Is
> > that possible for Legato? Currently the setting of our DLT Autoloader is
> > that the 5 tapes are used in such a way the current tape should become full
> > first before it can use the next tape. Thanks for the help.
>
> You could mark the tape used the previous day as full. Select it with
> something like :
> mminfo -r volume -q 'sscreate>=-1 day,near,!full,!volrecycle,written>0'
> then
> nsrjb -u <volume> ; nsrmm -y -o full <volume>
>
> Of course, if you automate this, you must be careful :
> - if the tape is in use when the nsrjb/nsrmm run, they will fail and the tape
> will remain writable
> - if a tape somehow fails during the backups, networker will carry on on
> another one, using 2 tapes the same day, and you may be a tape short at the
> end of the week.
savepnpc might help to keep it in sync.
http://www.backupcentral.com/foms/networker-serve/cache/47.html
To be on the safe side, leave the timeout field in the script blank -
timeout: "";
This will guarantee that the script won't run before the backup is
finished.
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