can i contain tape usage in a pool?
NBU 7.5.05
i learned something new today. tape pools.
if i create a tape pool and assign, let's say, 2 tape cartridges to it, can i control my backup policy to use only those tapes in that pool...
There are two scenarios.
With a scratch pool:
- Netbackup will allocate a new tape if the pool it empty
Without a scratch pool
- The backup will fail if no free tape exist
To be honest - the idea of telling what tapes holds which data is outdated. Netbackup will keep tract of it and can tell at any point where data are, as long as the backup is not expired. There is no reason to control that outside Netbackup. It is notorious difficult as well because Netbackup is not built with this in mind.
