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Configure Mixed Media, Arcserve Backup Virtual Libraries

When you create a Arcserve Backup virtual library using Arcserve Backup, you can configure a mixed media library into different Arcserve Backup virtual libraries to handle the different media types. Device Configuration lets you configure a library that contains multiple drives, where not all of the drives use the same media types. An example of this would be a library that has two DLT drives in it and also has two LTO drives.

After you start or stop and restart the Tape Engine, Arcserve Backup should automatically detect and configure your libraries with a default set of options. This section describes how to:

• Configure a Arcserve Backup virtual library to manage mixed media.
• Modify the options for an existing mixed media library.

Before you can configure your system to use a mixed media library, perform the following prerequisite task:

• Verify that Windows detects your hardware by accessing Computer Management Console and selecting Device Manager. The following graphic shows a sample Device Manager view:

  

  The library should be listed under Medium Changers and the Drives are usually listed under Tape drives. If there are no available Windows drivers for the Tape drives, they will be listed under Other devices. Arcserve Backup does not require device specific Windows drivers.

To configure mixed media, Arcserve Backup virtual libraries

1. From the Administration menu in the Navigation Bar on the Arcserve Backup Manager Console, select Device Configuration.

   The Device Configuration Welcome dialog opens.

2. Select the Virtual Library option (to divide your library into Arcserve Backup virtual library devices), and click Next.

   Note: If the Tape Engine is currently running, you are asked to stop it. Click Yes to continue.

3. In the first Virtual Library Configuration dialog, select the Mixed Media Library. Click New to access the New Virtual Library Properties dialog.

   

4. From the New Virtual Library Properties dialog, select the drives that use the same media type and also select the corresponding slot range that will hold that media type. Click OK to continue.

   

   Note: The slot range specified is in sequential order, beginning with the first slot in the library. Make sure that you select the drives having the same media type as the media in the first slot range.

5. Repeat Steps 5 and 6 for each set of drives that use the same media type.
6. Click Next.

   

   You have successfully configured a mixed media, Arcserve Backup virtual library.

Note: If your hardware configuration changes, you must reconfigure your Arcserve Backup virtual libraries for Arcserve Backup to work properly. If you must disconnect a library that was configured into Arcserve Backup virtual libraries, you should delete the Arcserve Backup virtual libraries before disconnecting.