LTO cleaning tape definition with two different drives?
Hi all: I need some advice. I have a client with Quantum i3 tape library; with one LTO7 and other LTO8 tape drives and 50 slots. Both drives are in the same partition; but since the client still have LTO6 media (written with an oracle SL48 tape library; which was decommissioned) the LTO7 is hcart and LTO8 is hcart2. As you know, LTO Cleaning tape are universal; that means no matter the LTO X category of the drive the tape cleaning media/cartridge is the same. The library was configured to let the application manage all cleaning tapes. My current issue is to reach universality with LTO Cleaning tapes or at least how to assign the cleaning tapes to the drives if the cleaning tapes have almost the same code bar CLNXYZCU. The current Media ID Generation is 0,8,5:6:7:8:1:2 \_ robot number \_ bar code length I was thinking that maybe use from 000 to 400 to assign "HC_CLN1/2 inch cleaning tape" to LTO7 drive and from 500 to 999 to assign "HC2_CLN1/2 inch cleaning tape 2". But need to hear options/advices from people with more experience.Solved1.6KViews0likes3CommentsWhat is the retention period for Annual backup
Dear Support, What is the retention period I need to set for my Yearly backup to Tape. (Media set propeties please see the screenshot attached). Retention perid/ overwrite protection period / Append period. Please note this a one time backup only. Backup to Tape drive (LTO6) The purpose of this backup is to keep every year a copy of that year's backup in a seperate LTO Tape. (This is not going to overwrite). This is only for future use in case management needed any files from previous years. I need a proper retention policy to keep for these kind of backups. Thank you.1.2KViews0likes2Comments