Backup plans and Primary Copy to Tape

Storage Policies were married to tapes the same way that Plans.  The only way to write muliple Storage Policies to a tape is to use a global secondary copy.

Would this be the case if my Primary job is writing to tape? I would like all Primary copies from the various storage policies to write to the same tape.

Hello ​​@Mauro ,

If you select ‘Primary Copy to Tape’ during Policy Creation, the pool will be displayed, but the tape library will be used in the same way as a standard library without the pool function. So this copy will use its own tapes.

An other issue; If you have a storage policy that uses a disk for the primary copy, and you then add a secondary copy to a global secondary copy or tape pool, you cannot upgrade this “tape pool copy” to a primary copy either. That might be why it’s called Global Secondary Copy.

This restriction has been in place for some time. Perhaps Valter could explain the background to it.

Jörg