I would prefer *not* to assign tapes to drives.   
With our current system, I just check to be sure sufficient recyclable tapes 
are available for each pool. I'd rather not have to juggle pools for specific 
drives as well. 

Roger

On Aug 2, 2013, at 10:31, "Stanley R. Horwitz" <stan AT temple DOT edu> wrote:

> Roger,
> 
> NetWorker can certainly write data to multiple tape drives simultaneously. 
> You have some control over this, but usually, each group will write to a 
> different drive, providing one is available. You can certainly assign media 
> pools to drives to control how this works.
> 
> On Aug 2, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Roger Morris <roger.in.eugene AT GMAIL DOT COM>
> wrote:
> 
>> We have networker 7.6.2 on RHEL with a quantum px502.  
>> Looking to update the system with a multi drive jukebox, possibly the 
>> Quantum i40 system.    We have Ultrium-3 tapes right now, but plan on moving 
>> to Ultrium-5 tapes.
>> 
>> How does networker handle multiple drives, does the next job just use 
>> whatever drive is available or do media pools have to be assigned to 
>> specific tape drives?
>> 
>> Roger
>