Mixing LTO 5 and LTO 6 tapes in a tapelibrary
Currently we are using LTO 5 tapes in Dell POwerVault TL2000 tape library. We are planning to have LTO 6 tapes for monthly and yearly backup/duplications. Is it good to have a mixed LTO 5/LTO 6 tapes in a library? By the way we will use LTO 5 in daily and weekly backups and duplications. Please advise thanks.
We are Symantec NBU 7.5.0.6 user.
I would say it quite normal to have many types of LTO in a robot over time. It is important you get bar codes that reflect LTO6 tapes and that the barcode range is uniquely identifiable for LTO6.
Eg.
LTO5 : A10000
LTO6 : B10000Please be advised you need to seperate the LTO tapes into diffrent volumes pools. Use the "override volume pool" in the schedules. For the daily and weekly use the volume pool defined for the policy. But for the monthly and yearly schedules, configure it to override the policy pool and use the pool defined for LTO6.
http://www.symantec.com/docs/HOWTO34701