STORE and TurboSTORE/iX Products Manual (B5151-90003)

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Preparing Storage Devices
Preparing Tapes and DDSs
Figure 3-4. Preparing Tapes for Parallel Devices
6. Divide your media among the devices.
Sequential If you plan to use sequential devices, divide your media among the
devices in order. For example, if you have two sequential devices and six
media, stack media 1, 3 and 5 near device 1, and stack media 2, 4 and 6
near device 2. Stack all media label side up and make sure that the
lowest-numbered backup is on the top of each stack. Figure 3-5. shows
an example.