Hi All, my question is in two parts ...

1) I am trying to backup a 500+ gig ORACLE database to my StorageTek L700
tape library using more than one tape drive!  The library has 6 fibre 9840
tape drives.  I have run a backup once but it only utilized one tape drive
and it took 26 hours!  I am wondering if there is a way to make it use all 6
drives in the library for the backup.  The machine that will be backing up
the database is a media server (not the master) and is connected directly to
the fibre network.  I am using NetBackup to run the backup (Standard Class)
not RMAN.  Both the Job and NetBackup have a maximum multiplex of 8.

2) Our Oracle Admin was trying to use RMAN to push a "HOT" Backup of the
same database and told rman to utilize 5 of the six tape drives, but it was
only using 1 for some reason!  Should I have the Media Multiplexing set to 1
on the ORACLE Class backup?  Any help with this would be appreciated!

Thanks

Ted Carr