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BunnDev
Level 2
15 years ago

BE2010: Creating a "spare tapes" Media Set?

Hello all, We run BE2010 with a Quantum Superloader 3 (16 tape slots).  Our daily backup requires 2 tapes.  I have created a Media Set for each day containing 2 tapes (i.e. Media Set "Monday" ...
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    RahulG
    15 years ago
    Well that is not possible and possible as well.
    Incase if you have created partiton in your robotic libray with 2 slots the backup job would only write to the tape in that partition and it would not spann to another spare tape in some other partition .
    If you do have partition created you can let the tape be in scratch media so once the two tape are full it will pick the thrid tape from the scratch media set ..(Need to make sure of the following setting Tools -Option -Media management -Option selected here should to be to use scratch media before using recyclable media .But once the data is written to the tape ,the tape would get assigned to the same media set deffined in the Backup Job
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RahulG
Level 6
15 years ago
Well that is not possible and possible as well.
Incase if you have created partiton in your robotic libray with 2 slots the backup job would only write to the tape in that partition and it would not spann to another spare tape in some other partition .
If you do have partition created you can let the tape be in scratch media so once the two tape are full it will pick the thrid tape from the scratch media set ..(Need to make sure of the following setting Tools -Option -Media management -Option selected here should to be to use scratch media before using recyclable media .But once the data is written to the tape ,the tape would get assigned to the same media set deffined in the Backup Job