Interesting.
Add up all the tape drives used in all your storage units.
Total must be less than the total number of actual drives.
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[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Ed Wilts
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:19 PM
To: Isidro Rodriguez
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Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Restore-only tape drives?
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 06:01:47PM -0500, Isidro Rodriguez wrote:
> Look at your Storage Unit Max concurrent drives and set it to one
> less.
Unfortunately I have 3 storage units since I've got 3 media servers. If I
drop a drive from each, they could still overlap. Am I missing something
here?
Thanks,
.../Ed
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> From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 5:51 PM
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> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Restore-only tape drives?
>
>
> I've asked my local Veritas systems engineer this, and he hasn't found
> an answer for me yet. How can I set up a drive that is dedicated to
> restores? We've run into multiple cases where we need to do a restore
> and all the drives in the library are in use. I'd like the ability to
> dedicate one drive solely to restores, perhaps for nearline
> applications or for general restores. We're still at 4.5FP6, 3 media
> servers (including the master), and SSO..
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