thats odd the stk library isnt reporting the correct
cart type back. for the media contents acording to
the stk lib (from the library admin or front panel),
are they all showing as dlt?
--- "Drunen van, Marcel"
<marcel.drunenvan AT nl.unisys DOT com> wrote:
> Tim, K,
>
> Thanks for the input.
>
> I think we are just lucky in our pick of labels.
> Both DLT and LTO labels
> start with 'BUP', but by pure coincidence we ordered
> BUP400 till BUP599
> for the LTO labels. Which means, following your
> input, we can make two
> rules for 'BUP4' and 'BUP5' and have them select
> Hcart as cartridge
> type. I'll check this tomorrow, think it will work.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Marcel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Hoke [mailto:thoke AT northpeak DOT org]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 4:26 PM
> To: Drunen van, Marcel
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu; K Chapman
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Different Cartridge Types
>
> Marcel,
>
> Let me see if I can make this as easy as possible
> for you.
>
> You will need to use barcode rules. Hopefully your
> new labels have a
> different range (in particular from left to right)
> than your current
> DLT carts do.
>
> Now, I'll add a couple of additional items. First,
> you mention that
> NBU only reads the "last six positions"... Well, NBU
> thinks the first
> positions are from left to right and therefore the
> L2 is in fact the
> last 2 positions. You are correct though, NBU does
> in fact use the
> last six positions by default. So, I'm assuming
> that if your media
> don't have that L2 (media identifier incidentally),
> then the library
> isn't reporting the L2 to NBU. That's not a big
> deal since you would
> probably just use a MEDIA_ID_BARCODE_CHARS directive
> to tell NBU to
> ignore it. And since barcode rules work from left
> to right, there's no
> "good" way to use the L2 in a barcode rule.....
> Whew, confused? Hope
> not.
>
> So, I'll give an example.
>
> Assume you have existing media that are all DLT
> media and the barcodes
> are AAAxxx. Now when you have the new LTO-2 Media,
> hopefully they have
> something different, lets say BBBxxx range. You
> need to create a
> barcode rule that lists AAA (don't put any wild
> cards in or it won't
> work) and identifies that range the same as your
> existing DLT media.
> Then, you can create a second rule that lists BBB
> and make it the same
> density as your LTO-2 drives (probably hcart).
>
> I hope that helps a bit and doesn't confuse you too
> much.
>
> -Tim
>
>
> On Jan 26, 2005, at 5:08 AM, Drunen van, Marcel
> wrote:
>
> > K,
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. We have 'L2' on the barcode
> too, but somehow
> > Netbackup still recognizes it as DLT. Probably
> because it only reads
> > the
> > last six positions of the barcode, so it will not
> see the 'L2' part.
> > Does that sound logical? Maybe this will work
> better if we add the
> > latest device mapping file?
> >
> > On the other hand, you say your library determine
> the type itself.
> Hmm,
> > I wish ours would. I will have to re-read the
> manual.
> >
> > On using barcode rules: unfortunately we chose to
> have the labels for
> > the LTO2's in the same range as the other labels.
> So it's hard to
> > design
> > a rule that picks out the LTO2's based on the
> barcode.
> >
> > CU,
> >
> > Marcel
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: K Chapman [mailto:tech2187 AT yahoo DOT com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:30 PM
> > To: Drunen van, Marcel;
> veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Different Cartridge
> Types
> >
> > i use barcode rules to make sure certain barcodes
> end
> > up in diff pools, others may do some more fancy
> > things. we use a stk l180 and we have on the
> barcode
> > (not part of the barcode) 'L2' for the lto2 tapes
> so
> > that the library itself will know what type of
> tape is
> > in the slots. the stk barcode scanner will use
> this
> > part of the label to determine the tape type, ie
> dlt,
> > lto, etc...
> >
> > --- "Drunen van, Marcel"
> > <marcel.drunenvan AT nl.unisys DOT com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> We have a STK L700 library with three DLT drives
> in
> >> it. Now we bought a
> >> LTO2 drive and a hundred cartridges. When we
> insert
> >> them into the robot
> >> and perform an inventory of the library, the new
> >> cartridges are detected
> >> as DLT drives, so they are not used by the new
> LTO2
> >> drive.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I vaguely remember something with barcode rules,
> but
> >> reading the Volume
> >> Manager guide confuses me even more. We use
> >> NetBackup 4.5 FP6.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Who has got a solution to this issue?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Marcel van Drunen
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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