Make all you're drives HCART, and all your tapes HCART, then they become 
interchangeable.  Of course you'll then have to find some other method of 
tracking witch tapes are of what type, such as volume pools and bar-code labels.


Dean wrote:
> I have this problem with 2 different capacity IBM 3592 media types. I 
> couldn't work out any way to get NetBackup to use 2 different media types on 
> one drive.
> 
> Luckily I have enough tape drives that I was able to set some drives to 
> HCART, and some to HCART2. It means I lose a certain amount of flexibility, 
> but at least I can use both media types, and can specify which backups use 
> which media type.
> 
> Cheers
> Dean
> 
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Schaefer, Harry <Harry.Schaefer < at > 
> turner.com (Harry.Schaefer < at > turner.com)> wrote:
> 
> >  Does NBU have the capability to use multiple media types in the same
> > drive based on policy?
> > 
> > My example is a Sun T10000 drive. There are two different types of tape
> > available. A standard tape that holds 1TB/2TB compressed & the Sport
> > version which holds about 250gb/500gb. Depending on the data being
> > backed up, we prefer the sport for faster access times.
> > 
> > Curious if NBU can utilize different scratch pools for this type of
> > customization or if it is tied to a single media type per drive?
> > 
> > Harry S.
> > Atlanta
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