On 12/7/2006 10:10 AM, Darren Dunham wrote:
>>  We have installed a new media server with a two drive robot at a remote
>> site to replace two stand alone drives and the old media server.
>> 
>> We want to setup 4 volume pools including a  scratch pool at the remote
>> site.
>> It appears that these pools must be defined at the new media server as I
>> have not been able to create another scratch pool in our existing
>> master/media.
> 
> I don't understand.  Why do you want a new scratch pool on the media
> instead of just using the existing scratch pool?
> 
> What do you hope to accomplish by doing that?

The obvious reason is that the scratch tapes are supposed to be in the 
robot attached to the media server.  There's no point in a job 
requesting a tape from a scratch pool in a robot that it doesn't have 
access to.

        .../Ed

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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