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

2011-06-05 20:50:32
Subject: Re: [Networker] Limiting a client to one of two tape drives
From: "STANLEY R. HORWITZ" <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2011 20:49:06 -0400
Unfortunately, that would not work because I need to have the other tape
drive available for group cloning.

On 6/5/11 3:41 PM, "denis.mail.list AT free DOT fr" <denis.mail.list AT free 
DOT fr>
wrote:

>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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