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parkar-noor's avatar
parkar-noor
Level 3
9 years ago

two backup software and tape library partitioning

hi all i am using symantec backup exec 2014 and another third party backup application. i have two tape drive in a 8096 tape library. i want to make sure one tape drive is availabe for symantec...
2014
Backup and Recovery
Backup Exec
Windows Server (2003-2008)
  • Larry_Fine's avatar
    Larry_Fine
    9 years ago

    You would need to use features of the 8096 to partition it into two logical libraries.  That way each server would only see one tape drive and the nuymber of storage slots that you allocated to that logical library/partition.

    Backup Exec and the other backup software need to be on different servers as Backup Exec assumes that it owns & controls all tape devices and robotic libraries that are seen by the operating system.

parkar-noor's avatar
parkar-noor
Level 3
9 years ago

there is way to partiton library, tape drive must be in particular slot.. This info available in tape libraray user guide.

Now what i want to know is if library is partitioned, i need to configure mail slots so that i can remove tapes online.

but as per tape library guide, it will configure 3 mail slots in magzines 1 becoz tape library 8096 supports that way, and renaming slots will be renumbered.  how it will affect my jobs in symantec.