If you do this you need to take part of your six digit barcode range and
dedicate it to the particular media type.  
 
It's sad that Netbackup doesn't support proper regexps in the barcode
rules so that the 'L2', 'L3' (presumably) 'L4' last two digits of the
barcode can be used to select the media type.  We've had a feature
request in for years for this and it's gone nowhere (unless 6.x does it
and our rep hasn't mentioned it).
 
<rant>  why's there no feedback on feature requests - even when they do
make it into a release you're left to scrabble round to see if it made
it in there.  </rant>

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From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Martin,
Jonathan (Contractor)
Sent: 25 April 2007 03:42
To: Spearman, David; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix


Use barcode rules and media types.  LTO2 media can be hcart2 and LTO3
can be hcart3 (I think hcart stands for Half-Inch Cartridge.)  NBU will
never put a hcart2 tape into an hcart3 tape device.  TO NBU that's as
incompatible as having LTO and DLT in the same library.
 
-Jonathan

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From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of
Spearman, David
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 3:17 PM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] LTO-2 LTO-3 mix


 

        We will be getting an expansion cabinet to our scaler 2000 soon.
At the moment we have LTO-2 drives and tapes. When we add the expansion
cabinet we are also going to add 2 LTO-3 drives with a set of LTO-3
tapes. My question is how do I keep LTO-2 tapes going to LTO-2 drives
while the LTO-3 tapes go only to LTO-3 drives. I suspect a combination
of storage units and tape pools but now that we are at NBU6mp4 expired
tapes just return to the scratch pool which would make them available to
anything.
         
        present setup
         
        W2K3 master/media with sso/ndmp to scaler 2000 (5 tape drives
allowed)
        W2K3 media server sso to scaler 2000 and DSSU (4 tape drives
allowed)
        W2K3 san media server sso to scaler 2000 
         
        David Spearman
        County of Henrico
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