You can have one scratch pool and still have scratch tapes in different
robots and the different robots still be able to access them as the
system knows what tapes are in what robot and which are scratch. I do it
and it works.

Regards. 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 5:51 PM
To: Darren Dunham
Cc: Veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] New Media Server

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
mailto:ewilts at ewilts.org

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