This only works if you're not using SSO, which many people are know.  Or if
you are sharing drives, you have to really seriously limit the amount seen
by each server.

Thanks,
Gregg Yurchak
VERITAS Consultant
Biloxi, MS
gregg AT veritas DOT com
Office: 1.228.822.9810
Cell:    1.228.324.6939




-----Original Message-----
From: Vapiwala, Kevin V [IT] [mailto:kevin.v.vapiwala AT ssmb DOT com]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 7:30 AM
To: 'Jason Ahrens'; Veritas BU
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Restore priority


Why not just set your Storage Unit Properties to one less drive then you
have on your Storage Unit, that way you have a driver free at all times for
a restore.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Ahrens [mailto:AhrensJ AT psi DOT ca]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 9:40 AM
To: Veritas BU
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restore priority


Yesterday night, we had a system go down. The system was rebuilt and a
restore was started to bring back the data.

The restore was started just minutes after the backup window opened. This
means taht the queue was full of backup jobs. It also appeared that the
restore did not take priority over the backups, and it would have taken
hours to wait for the queue to clear. This was not acceptable and we ended
up killing all the backup jobs so the restore could happen, and requeued all
the backups.

I'm thinking there has to be a better way.

How can I instruct NetBackup to consider restores at a higher priority than
backups, so that when the first free drive and required tape becomes free,
the restore will occur. I would't ask that backups in progress are
halted/suspended for the restore, just that the restore go to the top of the
queue.

Thanks

Jason

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Jason Ahrens
Systems Administrator/Backup Specialist
PSINet Limited
http://www.psi.ca
The Internet SuperCarrier

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