Upgrading tape drives while preserving media database?

[LargeMammal]

I am working with a customer who is about to change out most of their
STK 9940 tape drives for T10K drives. They are planning a complete
swap of media but they need to keep one 9940 drive installed for
recovery purposes as needed. This also means that they need to keep
the media database entries for the older drives and media. What is the
best practice for doing this? I would think we could just extend the
DB as the new tapes are added, but are there other ways to do this.
Networker version is 7.4.2 running on Solaris. Tape library is an STK
L700. Thanks for any suggestions.
David

[michael guldan]

Hey David,

I'm not sure if I get exactly what is going on, but let me know.  If this is an existing environment you can just add the new drives to the server and leave the existing media database untouched.  This is what i've done in the past and had no problems with it. The NetWorker server will know what media is available based on what it was told when the jukebox was orgionally set up. When you set up the new drives they should be set up with the new T10K drive type, and networker will be able to keep these seperate.