Catalog Tape Question or Problem??

[yowza]

If you remove the catalog tape, and replace it with a new tape, does Veritas automatically recognize the new tape and use it for the catalog? The sysadmin I replaced always put the catalog tape in slot 6 in the Sun Storedge L9. I would like to continue doing this but don't have a clue of how to do this.
I did a available_media command before and after inserting the new tape and it still shows the old tape as the catalog.
The catalog tape number I removed is 3783. I replaced it with 3785.

BEFORE

# ./available_media
media media robot robot robot side/ ret size status
ID type type # slot face level KBytes
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
DataStore pool

NetBackup pool

3765L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 80862528 ACTIVE
3769L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 225104544 ACTIVE
3774L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 231782208 ACTIVE
3778L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 163075936 ACTIVE
3782L1 HCART TLD 0 4 - 0 36508832 ACTIVE
3791L1 HCART TLD 0 9 - 3 163114432 ACTIVE
3766L1 HCART NONE - - - - - AVAILABLE
3767L1 HCART NONE - - - - - AVAILABLE
3770L1 HCART NONE - - - - - AVAILABLE
3777L1 HCART TLD 0 1 - - - AVAILABLE
3783L1 HCART TLD 0 6 - - - DBBACKUP
3768L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 262172416 FULL
3771L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 252868960 FULL
3772L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 334187776 FULL
3773L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 296452768 FULL
3775L1 HCART TLD 0 3 - 0 356959616 FULL
3776L1 HCART TLD 0 2 - 0 359346528 FULL
3779L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 254848800 FULL
3781L1 HCART TLD 0 7 - 3 243962080 FULL
3790L1 HCART TLD 0 8 - 3 247508992 FULL

None pool

NI95L1 HC_CLN NONE - - - - - AVAILABLE

AFTER

media media robot robot robot side/ ret size status
ID type type # slot face level KBytes
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
DataStore pool

NetBackup pool

3765L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 80862528 ACTIVE
3769L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 225104544 ACTIVE
3774L1 HCART TLD 0 5 - 8 231782208 ACTIVE
3781L1 HCART TLD 0 7 - 3 220633536 ACTIVE
3784L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 218103520 ACTIVE
3790L1 HCART TLD 0 8 - 0 4290304 ACTIVE
3766L1 HCART TLD 0 2 - - - AVAILABLE
3767L1 HCART NONE - - - - - AVAILABLE
3768L1 HCART NONE - - - - - AVAILABLE
3770L1 HCART NONE - - - - - AVAILABLE
3777L1 HCART TLD 0 1 - - - AVAILABLE
3782L1 HCART TLD 0 4 - - - AVAILABLE
3785L1 HCART TLD 0 6 - - - AVAILABLE
3783L1 HCART NONE - - - - - DBBACKUP
3771L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 252868960 FULL
3772L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 334187776 FULL
3773L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 296452768 FULL
3775L1 HCART TLD 0 3 - 3 251756224 FULL
3776L1 HCART NONE - - - 0 359908864 FULL
3778L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 249556480 FULL
3779L1 HCART NONE - - - 8 254848800 FULL
3791L1 HCART NONE - - - 3 250672064 FULL

None pool

NI95L1 HC_CLN NONE - - - - - AVAILABLE

Any help would be appreciated.

Yowza

 

[PGPhantom]

When you create a catalog backup, you specify the tape and pool.

 

[yowza]

Thanks PGPhantom. I finally figured out how to configure it via the GUI.

Yowza