If you are using barcoded tapes then you can use barcode
rules to assign tapes to pools based on the barcode prefix.
The media manager has the menus that let you set up barcode
rules.

Ray

shyam hazari wrote:
> 
> Hello Admins,
> 
>             Simple question(not for me) on tape management.  Whenever I load
> new tapes by default it goes to NetBackup pool. But I want to change it to
> ScratchPool.  As it very tedious to add tapes to each volume pool(I have
> twentyof them), all the pools will pull their tapes from ScratchPool. Now my
> question is
> 
> 1)How do I change the default Volume Pool from NetBackup to ScratchPool  and
> is it advisable to change the default pool ?
> 
> 2)If I don't want to mess around with system parameters by changing the
> default volume pool, do I have any other option ?
> 
> 3) When I do an inventory on the robot, if I change the update option to point
> to  ScratchPool, is it going to change the volume pool for all the tapes in
> the robot  or is it changing only for the newly added tapes ?
> I can test the the third option but I do not have direct access to the backup
> server and tape library.
> 
>  I appreciate y'r help
> 
> Thank you very much
> 
> Shyam Hazari,
> 
> Ph No 214 951 2334 (Work)
> 
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