Re: [Networker] Limiting a client to one of two tape drives
2011-06-01 16:58:43
Yes. That's the problem. Two of the four sessions go to one tape drive and
the other two sessions go to the other tape drive. It makes no sense.
On 6/1/2011 4:52 PM, "jee" <jee AT eresmas DOT net> wrote:
>Hi Stan,
>
>If cient parallelism is less or equal to the target sessions and no other
>backups from other clients are sent to those tapes while the linux client
>is
>being backed up, does NW still use both tapes?
>
>jee
>
>
>On Wednesday 01 June 2011 21:41:31 STANLEY R. HORWITZ wrote:
>> Unfortunately, that does not answer my question. I want to have two
>>drives
>> selected at the pool level, but have the backup go to whichever ONE of
>> those drives is available.
>>
>> On 6/1/2011 4:39 PM, "ldugarte" <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM>
>>wrote:
>> >>>>>>>>I have one Linux client with four TB worth of data spread over
>> >>>>>>>>four mount
>> >
>> >points. This client is in its own savegroup, which has a tape pool
>> >devoted
>> >exclusively to it. I want its backup to be limited to only one of the
>>two
>> >tape drives in my tape library. I have been playing around with
>>different
>> >settings, but every time I try it, the backup mounts two tapes even
>> >though
>> >each drive has 16 as its target sessions value. This is with NetWorker
>> >7.6
>> >SP1 on a Linux box.
>> >
>> >If anyone has any ideas on how I can do this without setting a pool
>> >target
>> >limit of 1, please let me know. <<<<<<<<
>> >
>> >Hello.
>> >
>> >To limit your savegroup to use only one drive go to Media Pools and
>> >select the pool that is used for your group, then in the tab Selection
>> >Criteria you can see Target Devices. In this box, check the drive that
>> >you want your pool use and unckeck all others.
>> >Hope it help
>> >
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