Can be NBU configured to use tapes in secuencial order on tape pools?
Hi people:
We are helping out a final customer who is coming from HPE DataProtector 9x. They were using a one drive LTO5 library. They take as workflow using tapes in sequential order without code bars, just written label to take control of the contents of backups.
Now they are using a 4 LTO9 drives HPE StoreEver MSL3040 (firmware 3320), with primary server a HPE Proliant DL360 Gen 10 server with Windows 2022 and NBU 10.3. Several pools were made and at least 4 tapes are assigned to each pool.
But following the current way to work, they want that NBU uses the tapes on all pools in sequential order. For example, PBX pool has tapes label:
0017L9 000017L9 HCART3
0018L9 000018L9 HCART3
0019L9 000019L9 HCART3
0020L9 000020L9 HCART3
When NBU run backups using that pool: use first tape 0017L9 if fills up then 18L9... and so on.
if CDRS pool has tapes:
0037L9 000037L9 HCART3
0038L9 000038L9 HCART3
0039L9 000039L9 HCART3
0040L9 000040L9 HCART3
When NBU runs bkps using that pool, first use tape 0037L9, when fills up 0038L9 and so on.
There are few backups made since the solution is very new. But the first trial backup took tape 0020L9 instead of the 0017L9.. the option to leave tapes out-library is off-topic since the DataCenter isn't near the office and have just security people who can't access the library except from programmed visits to load the 40 tapes library.
The other option will be to leave the pool with just one tape but if fills will use the next in order (sequential) o just any tape.
They are very comfortable with the control used to have on DP and how backups were made. So they want to fit NBU to their needs as far as possible.
Any ideas if this sequential order on pools is possible, o how?