Ripro Backup (Legato)

Scanning considerations

Lev Weissman
February 9, 2000

Those are Legato recommendations for scanning tapes:

1) Backing up/Recovering while scanning a tape:

This is not recommended. Backup and scanning are going to update the same media database at the same time. This might lead to an index corruption and thus causing the functionality of the Networker to fail. Usually these processes lock the media database whil using it. While one of these are going on recovery might cause unnecessary problems.

2) Scanning multiple drives:

This is not recommended as well. One scan is going to lock the media database thus preventing the other from accessing the media database. Even if it works there is high potential for the index corruption.

As far as Legato is concerend we don't recommend any of these.