How many tape drives to you have in you loader?  

If you have 4 drives and 4 or more jobs scheduled to fire at once (without
multiplexing) you will pull 4 tapes, one for each available drive.  If this
is the case, you could try (in order of personal Preference):
1. Grouping the jobs into 1 or 2 policies and change the "Limit Jobs Per
Policy" to 1 or 2 accordingly.
2. Staggering your schedule
3. Multiplexing if it is justified
4. Only allow 2 drives at a time for backup

Andrew
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Dvorak [mailto:sdvorak AT veritas DOT com] 
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 12:07 AM
To: 'Sen'; netbackup-l; nbu-lserv; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu

Check out the "Allow multiple retensions" capability.

Steve Dvorak 

-----Original Message-----
From: Sen [mailto:discussion.groups AT gmx DOT net] 
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 7:46 PM
To: netbackup-l; nbu-lserv; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] tape usage


hi,
I have a pool if 10 tapes which is configured for full backup. This backup
only requires 2 tapes, however, if there are 10 tapes in the library it will
use about 4 tapes.

How can i force NB3.4 to continue appending data on those tapes which still
have free space before moving on the other new tapes ? thanks


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