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[Veritas-bu] Question about reserving tape drive for restore - a better way?

2000-02-23 11:09:11
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Question about reserving tape drive for restore - a better way?
From: Robert Bakh bbakh AT veritas DOT com
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 08:09:11 -0800
You could always set the STU for restores to be On Demand Only, so it is
only used when you specifically use it and so you can continue using
Any_Available 

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Steingruebl [mailto:steingra AT pprd.abbott DOT com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 7:55 AM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Question about reserving tape drive for restore -
a better way?


According to the docs, in order to reserve a tape drive for restore, I can 
create a separate storage unit, and then not make it available for backups.

Unfortunately, I don't think this is a good solution.

1. I have all my backup classes set to use any available storage unit. This 
allows me to let the software do all the scheduling, load balancing, etc.

2. If I don't do #1, then I'm forced to manually allocated 
classes/clients/schedules to individual storage units, which defeats the
whole 
purpose.

Has anyone come up with a better solution to this problem?  I would
entertain 
wild ideas about making another master server and moving tapes to it when 
forced to do a restore while the other storage units are busy, but this
seems 
needlessly complicated.

Recommendations?

Thanks.

-- 
Andy Steingruebl              | e-mail: steingra AT pprd.abbott DOT com         
 
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