Hi,
Do you have more than one tape device in the Library. If you Storage Unit is 
configured with more than 1 drive, NetBackup will not wait for the first tape 
to be full (when used by a job) to use a second tape on the second drive (for 
another job).
If this is the Case, configure another Storage Unit with # of drive = 1; modify 
your class schedule to use the new create Storage Unit. All jobs will then be 
queued and only one at a time will be active, using the same tape until it gets 
full.

Daniel

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Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 12:07 AM
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Subject: [BackupScripts-L] RE: [Veritas-bu] tape usage


Check out the "Allow multiple retensions" capability.

Steve Dvorak 

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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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