Reserving a drive is not really easy.  The only way to do it is,
in the storage unit configuration, specify the no. of drives you
want to be used.  The unspecified drives are still known to the
server and will be used for restoring, or so it is believed.
However, the system will not always pick these drives 'alone'
for restoring.  In essence, no easy way out.

-ravi

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Sangemino, Joe wrote:

>Hi,
>       I'm in a situation tonight where I'm rebuilding a Unix server, and I
>will need to restore some directories to it once done.  I have a 4 DLT drive
>Sun L1000 StoreEdge unit with a 30 tape capacity robot. 3 of the drives are
>now busy doing restores which will take another few hours, and in 30 minutes
>the nightly round of backups will begin. I'm going like hell to try and have
>my system ready for the restore before the nightly backups kick in and take
>over my sole remaining free DLT drive.
>
>The question is, how could I in the future ensure that I had a drive free
>for just such an emergency repair?
>
>(For those wondering, I beat the backups for the restore)
>
>Cheers,
>Joe
>
>Joe Sangemino
>NT/UNIX Systems Administrator
>Eftia OSS Solutions Inc.
>jsangemino AT eftia DOT com
>Tel. (613)368-4181
>
>
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