NBU does not relabel expired tapes before assigning back to Scratch.

Inline copy to physical and virtual tape is a pain because you lose the
advantage of defining as many virtual drives as you want, and are
limited by the number of physical drives, unless you have priorities on
data...ie, your important stuff gets ITC to phys and virt, while less
important (lab/dev) gets written to VT only, then when the prod jobs are
finished with the physical drives, you Vault your Dev/lab to phys tape.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf 
> Of Larry Mascarenhas
> Sent: September 23, 2007 3:27 PM
> To: Clem Kruger
> Cc: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Script to label expired tapes in a VTL
> 
> 

> 
> In Netbackup, I think it is significantly better. This is because an 
> expired tape gets labelled and put into the Scratch pool 
> automatically. 


> This way the number of volumes to be managed is reduced 
> significantly. 
> With a wee bit of planning, I think it might be possible to eliminate 
> the need for relabelling. I'm toying with various options. 
> One of them 
> is to do in-line copy for off-site. The primary copy with lesser 
> retention time will stay in the VTL. The off-site physical 
> volume will 
> have the correct retention time.
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