On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 06:02:55AM -0400, Bobby Williams wrote:
> You can put an LTO-2 media into the LTO-3 drive and write to it.  However,
> you need to change the drive definition in NetBackup for that drive to be
> hcart2 (or whatever is not in use).

Why?

> You HAVE to have the LTO-2 tape media
> defined the exact same way as the drive that you are going to put it in.
> You will also have to define a storage unit with this newly defined tape
> drive type.  Duplication uses storage units as the targets.

If this was a one-time thing, I wouldn't bother redefinining anything.
I'd have it learn the LTO2 media as identical to my normal LTO3 media
(and therefore think it compatible with my LTO3 drives, which it is).

Unless you have multiple drive types in use, I don't see any gain to
defining multiple types.

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