Re: [Veritas-bu] Anyone using media sharing in 6.5?

I was just looking over this last night, and was surprised it's not on by default....
I also ran across a statement in the guide that said you should use caution with ACS libraries, but I could not tell why you needed to be cautious. Anyone have an idea?

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Subject	[Veritas-bu] Anyone using media sharing in 6.5?

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 _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu

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