How to setup backup to Robotic library?
Look in each partition to ensure you see a tape (ie a bar code label). Assuming these are overwritable (ie reusable tapes), I would run an erase job on a tape. That will confirm functionality and it should then also give you a free byte count like you expect.
I am not a fan of software partitioning, so I would suggest leaving the library as an 8 slot loader, rather than 8 1 slot partitions, but that is up to you.
To add a tape stage to your existing disk backups, you would edit the disk backup job, then click on "add stage" to have the disk backup copied to tape.
I too am not a fan of partitioning. I believe that is cause more harm than good. See my blog
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/partitions-should-be-banned
Get rid of your partitions. Create one or more media sets with the appropriate OPP and AP that should be sufficient to protect your tapes.
To write to your tapes, whether when duplicating a disk backup set or backing up straight to it, just change the storage device in your job to point to the tape library and then specify the media set that you want so that the tape is protect.
To export tapes, use the web interface to your library and enable the maillslot. After enabling the mailslot,
1) Delete the library from BE2) Stop the media server and the library3) Start the tape library4) Start the media server5) Ensure that the library and tape drive is recognised and functioning correctly in the Windows Device Manager6) In BE, install the library if necessary.If the mailslot is properly enabled, then you would "loose" one slot. You would not be able to see the mailslot in BE and you would only see 7 slots for your library.With the mailslot enabled, you can right-click on a slot and export a tape to the mailslot. You can then open the mailslot and remove the tape, rather than removing the magazine and taking out the tape. For your jobs, that write to tapes, you can add an export stage after the job. This will put the tape which was written to by the job in the mailslot. This way you don't have to keep track of which tape to remove from library. You just open the mailslot and the correct tape is there.You can also import a tape from the mailslot to an empty slot. Put a tape into the mailslot, right-click on an empty slot and the tape would be moved to the empty slot.
