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[Veritas-bu] Isolating drives within a L3500 - NDMP vs NT

2002-09-03 09:27:06
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Isolating drives within a L3500 - NDMP vs NT
From: jlkennedy AT amcc DOT com (Jeff Kennedy)
Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2002 06:27:06 -0700
You can also put the following in vm.conf:

DISALLOW_NONNDMP_ON_NDMP_DRIVE

~JK

Stanislav.Markovic AT base DOT be wrote:
> 
> We had a similar problem here. We solved it by using separate
> class volume pools and abandoning the scratch pool altogether.
> The downside of this is that you have to sort of plan the size of your
> volume pools in advance. That turned out not to be such a big
> problem for us.
> 
> I found it mildly annoying that in NBU 3.4 you can only say "backup to
> THIS storage unit" or "backup to ANY storage unit", but you cannot
> say "backup to THESE storage units, but not to THOSE". Surely this
> feature would not be to hard? Does it exist in 4.5 perhaps?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Stanislav Markovic
> Technology - Storage Administrator
> 
> BASE, Rue Colonel Bourg 122-1
> 1140 Bruxelles
> email: stanislav.markovic AT base DOT be
> phone: +32/485/54 15 61
> 
> "Reese, Paul E. (CAP, CMC)" <Paul_Reese AT mortgage.ge DOT com>
> @mailman.eng.auburn.edu> on 30/08/2002 20:31:08
> 
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> 
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> cc:
> 
> Subject:  [Veritas-bu] Isolating drives within a L3500 - NDMP vs NT
> 
> To all,
> Environment Info:
> Filer: F820 running Data Ontap 6.1r2
> NBU DataCenter version: 3.4.1
> 1 - Unix Master
> 1 - Unix Media Server
> 1 - E3500 Juke with 7 drives, 5 attached to the Unix Media Server, 2
> directly attached to the Filer.
> 
> I have two separate storage units; (1) NDMP-J01 with 2 drives available and
> Storage unit type of NDMP and (2) NT-J01 with 5 drives available.  I have
> separate bar codes with bar code rules for NDMP backups vs. NT backups.
> 
> I am trying to isolate the two drives directly connected to the filer from
> being used by  my NT-J01 storage unit.  There have been several occasions
> where my NT backup tapes have been mounted in one of the drives attached to
> the filer.  Needless to say, this slows down the process significantly.
> 
> So, the question is, how do I keep non-NDMP tapes from being mounted on my
> two NDMP drives.
> 
> Any suggestions are appreciated.
> 
> Paul
> 
> Paul Reese
> Unix Admin
> GE Capital Mortgage Insurance
> 
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