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Title:Archive/Backup
Moderator:COOKIE::MHUAIG
Created:Wed Sep 08 1993
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:479
Total number of notes:2283

392.0. "using SLS and ABS on same media? " by NBOFS1::RITZER (Guenter Ritzer) Thu Mar 06 1997 07:35

    USING SLS AND ABS SIMULTANOUSLY
    
    A customer of mine wants to use SLS 2.8A for backing up Open VMS and
    ABS V2.1 for archiving WNT clients. We want to store the save sets of
    both platforms on the same tape media used in a TZ877 jukebox. 
    
    Question: is it possible to store WNT gtar files and VMS save sets on
    the same tape media? 
    
    SLS and ABS use the same volume database, so this should work
    theoretically! 
    
    Please provide your comments.
    
    Regards Guenter
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392.1Can share media_typeCOOKIE::HEISLERChris Heisler, ABS EngineeringThu Mar 06 1997 13:2315
    Guenter,
    
    If SLS has used a tape in that jukebox, it is allocated to SLS.
    If ABS wants to allocate a tape, it has to find either a free tape
    or a tape that has been previously allocated to ABS.  They will
    not be able to use the same tapes, but they can use the same
    media_type.
    
    If you were doing both of the backups from ABS (OpenVMS and WNT)
    they could both be written to the same tapes.
    
    If you have more questions about that, let me know.
    
    Chris