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? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of shred625 Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:32 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Veritas-bu] Special Tapes to policies 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? +---------------------------------------------------------------------- |This was sent by [email protected] via Backup Central. |Forward SPAM to [email protected]. +---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Veritas-bu maillist - [email protected] http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/mailman/listinfo/veritas-bu
