Steve:

Maybe I am missing the point of what you all are trying to do...but in the 
course of helping our dba with some scripting of backups we tried this just 
yesterday.

 From a client, at the command line:

bpbackup -c someclass -s User -L somelog -h someclient -S myserver -t 0 -f 
/stream1
bpbackup -c someclass -s User -L somelog -h someclient -S myserver -t 0 -f 
/stream2

Where Stream1 and Stream2 define two different groups of directories on 
different disks etc...

The monitor log shows two jobs running simulataneously, and writing to the 
same tape.
the fact that your jobs are queing, means to me, that something is 
misconfigured.  Remember that there are multiple places where you can trip 
yourself up here
1.  Netbackup configuration has to allow multiple jobs/client
2.  At the class level, streaming has to be enabled
3.  At the schedule level (i.e. in my case above the schedule is called 
User) more that one stream must be enabled.

Regards,
David


At 10:02 AM 3/15/2002 -0500, Steve Matthews wrote:
>Hi again,
>
>This is what I was referring to in my response yesterday. You can't do
>multiple streams to one tape drive via a "User Backup" from the client. It's
>impossible according to Veritas. You can kick off multiple bpbackup requests
>to emulate multiple streams and go to multiple drives (i.e. one stream per
>drive), but if you are trying to go to one tape drive with multiple streams,
>the other 3 bpbackup's you refer to below will stay "queued" as you are
>experiencing. I was trying to do the same thing with a 1.5TB weekend backup
>with 9 streams against 3 drives and was never successful even after talking
>to Veritas.
>
>Steve
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Li, Yanhui
>(Jackie)
>Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 6:35 PM
>To: 'larry.kingery AT veritas DOT com'; Li, Yanhui (Jackie)
>Cc: 'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
>Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Multiple backup stream from client.
>
>
>Here is my setup:
>Maximum jobs per client: 4
>Storage Unit: Maximum multiplexing per drive: 4
>Class:allow multiple data streams
>
>Here it what  I run from client:
>
>#bpbackup -f filelist1
>#bpbackup -f filelist2
>#bpbackup -f filelist3
>#bpbackup -f filelist4
>
>filelist1:
>/var
>/opt
>
>filelist2:
>/home
>
>filelist3:
>/oracle
>
>filelist4:
>/apps
>
>
>If I look at server acivity monitor, only one backup is active, all the
>other three is queued.
>That is not what I want, I want four all to be active.
>
>I also tested start the class from server, multistreaming works, but now
>from client
>
>Thanks
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Larry Kingery [SMTP:larry.kingery AT veritas DOT com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 14, 2002 2:53 PM
> > To:   Li, Yanhui (Jackie)
> > Cc:   'veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu'
> > Subject:      Re: [Veritas-bu] Multiple backup stream from client.
> >
> > I don't know Legato, so I'm not sure how close bpbackup and save are.
> > But, what you'll want to know about bpbackup is that there's two main
> > ways to run backups using it:
> >
> > 1) Immediate backup.  The bpbackup command is run on a server and you
> >    (can) specify the client.  Uses -i option.  Equivalent to choosing
> >    'Manual Backup' via the GUI.  Will do multiple streams with one
> >    command.  Will use exclude/include lists if they exist.  Affects
> >    the scheduling of regularly scheduled backups.
> >
> > 2) User-directed backup.  Run on the client.  You must have a
> >    user-directed backup schedule configured, and the window must be
> >    open.  You specify the files, which means no incrementals (unless
> >    you handle this and create the file list accordingly).  If you want
> >    multistreaming, you launch multiple backups (hopefully with
> >    different file lists and different physical disks).
> >
> > Of course, what you're probably looking for is the 'Max Jobs Per
> > Client' option.  The default is one.  You can set this (on the master
> > server) using bpconfig -mj <number>.  You also need a storage unit
> > with more than one drive (or multiplexing greater than one and the
> > same retention periods for multiple jobs).
> >
> > Li, Yanhui (Jackie) writes:
> > >
> > > We are changing out backup software from Legato to Netbackup, on Legato
> > > networker,
> > > we used to use client started  backup, I just start a couple of "save"
> > > command simultaneously,
> > > I know that "bpbackup" is equal to networker "save", but when I star
> > > multiple bpbackup at the same time,
> > > only one is active, all the others are queued.
> > >
> > > Is any setting I have to change in order all stream to be active same
> > time?
> > >
> > > THanks
> > > Jackie
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