As of the release of Arcserve 9, Computer Associates does not allow the
media pool serial numbers to be edited when creating a new GFS backup job.
For those who are not fond of Arcserve’s huge and hard to read serial
numbers, there is an alternative.
Delete existing media pools if desired and create new media pools in
Brightstor Manager with the following attributes:
| Prefix_DLY | Start Serial: 1000 | Range: 999 | Save Set: 3 | Retention Time: 6 |
| Prefix_MLY | Start Serial: 3000 | Range: 999 | Save Set: 11 | Retention Time: 343 |
| Prefix_WLY | Start Serial: 2000 | Range: 999 | Save Set: 4 | Retention Time: 34 |
From the Netware Server, submit a new GFS backup job using the Brightstor
Scheduler. Don’t worry too much about the options and settings, they can
be changed later.
Back in Brightstor Manager, go to the Job Status, right-click the job,
select Modify, and make all of the changes to the job that you want.
When you click Start to submit the job you should not get an error
message about another job using your Media Pools.