On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 10:23 AM, John Drescher<drescherjm AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 9:34 AM, terryc<terryc AT woa.com DOT au> wrote:
>> Silver Salonen wrote:
>>
>>> As one device supports only one job, you have to create separate devices for
>>> each job you want to be able to run concurrently.
>>
>> That isn't how I understand it. I am working on having multiple clients
>> feeding files into a single tape drive at the same time and expect that
>> chuncks of each job will be interleaved along the tape.
>>
>> It should be the same for disk files, if that ishow you configure it
>> (say one file for each nights jobs).
>>
>
> As long as the pool is the same more than 1 job can concurrently write
> to the same volume. I have been doing that for years with tape and
> disk. However if you do want more than 1 pool then with disks its best
> to have multiple storage devices.
>
I should have said more than 1 pool to operate concurrently with disk.

John M. Drescher



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