Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] Special Tapes to policies

2009-02-27 05:18:59
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Special Tapes to policies
From: "W. Curtis Preston" <wcplists1 AT gmail DOT com>
To: <VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:04:09 -0800
I guess my question is to question the requirement to do this. I've never
been a fan of "special backups going to special tapes."  I'm relatively OK
with segregating backups (e.g. Oracle on its own tapes, etc), but who cares
what backups go to what tapes?  Just let NBU put it on whatever tape it
wants to be on and then let it track them.  Why force certain backups to
certain barcodes?  Historically, when I find people doing this, they look
and they find that they're doing it cause the guy before did it, and the guy
before him did it, and the guy before him did it cause he liked the color
blue.

So why do you have this requirement?

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I had a vision and it didnt turn out exactly how I intended it.  (NBU 5.1
MP5upgrading soon Windows centric environment)

I have the need to write certain data to only specific tapes. Those tapes
are designated by a two digit code at the front of the tape. I have policies
that I need to write to these tapes but I would like them to be able to drop
in different pools based on retention (daily, weekly ect). Currently I have
the tapes going to pool X and using barcode rules the tapes are assigned to
that pool. Those polices are set to write only to pool X.

What I would rather have to I can still see daily, weekly and so on pools is
those tapes drop into the scratch pool but can only be used by those
specific policies. I tried this and wasnt able to get it to work as the
policies would grab any scratch tapes and for business reasons this cant
happen.

Any ideas here?

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