Hi Ray, welcome to the forums.
Thanks for the description here, I think I get your tape-out goals and I believe you want GFS Media Pools, which I'll explain shortly.
First, I advise take a look at our Forum FAQ for Tape, as I think it will help clear up a few terminology confusions with Veeam's Tape implementation.
Veeam can be configured to Export Tapes on successful job completion, but this will move the tapes to the IO Slots - I understand you have IO slots disabled, but for easy removal without having to open the magazine door (which tapes the library offline for most OSes), IO Slots are the way to go. This is the best way in my opinion as it avoids disrupting the other operations and allows the operator to remove tapes from the IO slots at their leisure. The configuration is done in the Media Pool and the job settings -- Vaults in Veeam are a logical container that tracks tapes no longer in the library, so it's not required to use Vaults for your planning, but it likely will help as tapes in Vaults can be flagged with things like Software Write Protection (i.e., Veeam will not allow write operations performed by Veeam on such protected tapes, this is limited to Veeam however).
I think that ideally Tape GFS is what you want to do -- with GFS media pools, for each media set (weekly, monthly, yearly, quarterly), you can configure which tapes the media set is allowed to pull from. If you just align it that only the tapes in the specific magazine are allowed to be chosen for a given media set, this means that all you need to do is just configure which tapes are allowed and it should only pull from those tapes. Keep those tapes in your desired magazine, and you should achieve your goal.
Start with the above, and let us know if you have further questions.
Thanks!
Thanks for the description here, I think I get your tape-out goals and I believe you want GFS Media Pools, which I'll explain shortly.
First, I advise take a look at our Forum FAQ for Tape, as I think it will help clear up a few terminology confusions with Veeam's Tape implementation.
Veeam can be configured to Export Tapes on successful job completion, but this will move the tapes to the IO Slots - I understand you have IO slots disabled, but for easy removal without having to open the magazine door (which tapes the library offline for most OSes), IO Slots are the way to go. This is the best way in my opinion as it avoids disrupting the other operations and allows the operator to remove tapes from the IO slots at their leisure. The configuration is done in the Media Pool and the job settings -- Vaults in Veeam are a logical container that tracks tapes no longer in the library, so it's not required to use Vaults for your planning, but it likely will help as tapes in Vaults can be flagged with things like Software Write Protection (i.e., Veeam will not allow write operations performed by Veeam on such protected tapes, this is limited to Veeam however).
I think that ideally Tape GFS is what you want to do -- with GFS media pools, for each media set (weekly, monthly, yearly, quarterly), you can configure which tapes the media set is allowed to pull from. If you just align it that only the tapes in the specific magazine are allowed to be chosen for a given media set, this means that all you need to do is just configure which tapes are allowed and it should only pull from those tapes. Keep those tapes in your desired magazine, and you should achieve your goal.
Start with the above, and let us know if you have further questions.
Thanks!
Statistics: Posted by david.domask — Aug 28, 2024 8:25 am
