Re: [Networker] Can someone confirm the following about "scratch" tapes

Bruce,
Why not just select the recycle from and recycle to options in the pool
configuration and let NetWorker do the work for you.

Michael Nored
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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Bruce Breidall
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:50 PM
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Subject: Re: [Networker] Can someone confirm the following about "scratch"
tapes or "scratch pools" ?

One other related question. When volumes in a production media pool become 
recyclable, they will stay in that pool unless they are relabeled into 
another. What i would like is not only a dedicated scratch pool, but when 
tapes become expired it would be nice for them to be automatically labeled 
into the scratch pool again, ready for the next request from whatever 
group source backup.

It seems to me that in order to be able to do that you would have to set 
recycled from pools in the group sourced media pool, so that every pool 
could grab volumes from any other pool (as long as the scratch source pool 
has recycled to pools yes).

This seems very messy and a candidate for trouble, and an ugly way to do 
something the product should automatically do by default. I see a possible 
workaround to run a scheduled script that finds recyclable volumes in 
production media pools and relabel to the designated scratch pool.

Does this make sense to anybody?

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Re: [Networker] Can someone confirm the following about "scratch" tapes or "scratch pools" ?
