06-03-2009 01:08 PM
06-03-2009 06:07 PM
From the tape drive/library vendor support document, you can find out if the tape drive supports Tape Alert feature or not.
If it does, then put cleaning tapes in library, and assign them CLN type.
For example, if your tape drives are configured as DLT3, then all your tapes will be of DLT3 type too - in this case, you make your cleaning tapes be of DLT3_CLN type.
When you do volume inventory update, you can specify the media type according to the barcode label - so it is a good idea to label those cleaning tapes with CLN prefixed barcode labels, so that you can set up the barcode rule in the volume inventory option, to make all the CLNxxx tapes to be of DLT3_CLN type.
By DLT3, I do not mean the physical DLT4000/DLT8000/SDLT types - I mean the drive type and the media type within the NetBackup device/volume database (EMM, if it's 6.x), that's what NetBackup cares about.
Cheers,
Abe
06-04-2009 05:18 AM
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