Rolf,

        You should be able to use storage group to accomplish that.  NBU will
pick the STU withing the storage group in order you put them there.

paulg

On Jan 27, 12:30pm, Rolf C wrote:
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] [NB45] prioritizing tape drives?
> Hello all.
>
> We have the following situation.
> NB45 with SSO.
> 2x STK9840
> 1x STK9840B
> 1 Master server
> 1 Media/Fileserver
>
> 2 STU's. both STU's have all the Drives.
>
> Now we would like to prioritize witch drive is used for a specific backup or
> restore. So backups from server 1 (with a specific policy) allways use the
> STK9840B, BUT when the 9840B failes it will use one of the other drives. And
> backups from server 2-100 allways use the other 9840 drives.
>
> I know we can make different STU's with different drives but then you lose
> flexibility when the drive in the STU failes.
>
> Hope i made my idea clear a bit.
>
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