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Re: [Networker] Limiting a client to one of two tape drives

2011-06-05 15:42:33
Subject: Re: [Networker] Limiting a client to one of two tape drives
From: Denis <denis.mail.list AT FREE DOT FR>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 21:41:58 +0200
Hello,

what about providing only one or two tapes available to the server ?
Making the others read-only with nsrmm (under Linux, you can script this in an 
easy way).

Denis

----- "STANLEY R. HORWITZ" <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU> a écrit :

> Greetings everyone,
> 
> 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.
> 
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