I also was interested in media sharing until I read the part that is was not recommended in a ACSLS environment.
I'd also like to take advantage of minimizing the number of tapes I use when duplicating which has increased by 10% since moving to 6.5.1.
If anyone can share their experience with ACSLS and media sharing, I'd be interested in hearing about it.
Scott
>>> "Bryan S. Leaman" <leaman AT bitbytes DOT com> 8/6/2008 9:40 AM >>>
I'm finding that I'm vaulting quite a few partially used tapes, because
each tape can only be written by the server that owns it, and I have 7
media servers. The new media sharing option in 6.5 looks like it would
help to optimize the tape usage, but I'm wondering if anyone has tried
this out yet? I checked the knowledge base and there are several bugs
related to media sharing that are fixed in 6.5.2 (which I am using).
Just a bit nervous to enable this in production. I'm also wondering
where a shared tape is mounted for a restore...is it based on the server
that the image was written on, since there would be no overall tape
"owner"? We use alternate restore server options quite frequently, so I
don't want to break that.
Any comments on media sharing would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Bryan
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