Replacing Tape Library in Netbackup 7 for Windows

[Arjun_Sukumar]

Hi,

We need toreplace the existing single drive LTO 4 tape library with the lates 2 Drive LTO 5 Tape library with barcode. The previous one doesnot support barcode and the catridges were identified using slot numbers. Now when I am replacing this library, what will be the best possible option to retain the previous backup  . If I use the same catridge will netbackup identify them?

[Marianne · Accepted solution]

Put the non-barcoded media in specific slots, then use vmphyinv to inventory just those slots.

To run physical inventory for slots 3-8, run this from cmd:

vmphyinv -rn <#> -rh <robot-host> -slot_range 3 8 -d <density>

Please DO NOT leave these non-barcoded tapes in the robot - just insert them when you need to restore from them.  Normal robot inventory from the GUI will add them with new media-id's and probably try to use them for backups.

Once all images have expired, it will be fine to put labels on them and reuse for backups.

[Nicolai]

Leve the tapes in the old robot and use new barcode labeled LTO5 tapes for the new robot.

Using LTO4 tapes in a LTO5 tape drives is supported but capacity and transfer speed will remain at LTO4 level. This may led to unprediciatble tape usage if LTO4 and LTO5 tapes are mixed.

[Arjun_Sukumar]

Thanks for the valuable input.

[Arjun_Sukumar]

Thanks Nic