Veritas-bu

Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 to LTO4 conversion

2010-05-06 15:57:49
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] LTO3 to LTO4 conversion
From: A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT taos DOT com>
To: VERITAS-BU AT MAILMAN.ENG.AUBURN DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 19:57:37 +0000
On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 12:00:09PM -0500, Nate Sanders wrote:
> Thanks for the info on the spec. I was under some impression that
> Netbackup (remember, we're on 5.1 here) had an issue with using three
> different media types. Maybe this is not the case but it was something I
> had in my head. If this is not so, it sounds like we can move to LTO4
> fairly quickly.

If you are replacing all the drives at the same time, I would never
tell Netbackup that the drives/tapes were changing.

When we did LTO3->LTO4, we just left all the tapes as HCART3 in NBU
and added the new drives as HCART3.  Everything works fine.  NBU
doesn't need to know there's any difference.

-- 
Darren
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