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[Veritas-bu] Inline Copy and Multiplexing problem

2005-02-07 04:38:18
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Inline Copy and Multiplexing problem
From: Nick.Toye AT ingenta DOT com (Nick Toye)
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 09:38:18 +0000 (GMT)
About 100. It's our main backup policy.

On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 Dongfang_Liao AT kaltire DOT com wrote:

> How many jobs do you get in the policy B?
>
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> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Inline Copy and Multiplexing problem
>
>
>
> Can anyone help with the following problem please. We are running
> Netbackup 5.0 MP3 on Solaris 8.
>
> We have 2 policies.
>
> Policy A is for a single client and it's schedules are configured to run
> inline copy, with the primary copy going to a tape library, and copy 2
> going to a disk storage unit.
>
> Policy B is for all other clients and it's schedules are configured to run
> a primary copy to the tape library only.
>
> The retention levels for the primary copys of the respective schedules in
> both policies A and B are the same, and also for copy 2 of policy A.
> Multiplexing is set to the same across both policies, and set in the tape
> storage unit (5 for each of 2 drives).
>
> The problem is as follows. The single job for policy A starts. 10 minutes
> later the many jobs for policy B are queued. But the tape that has been
> selected for policy A continues to run only that job, and does not pick up
> the policy B jobs until policy A has finished.
>
> Nick Toye
> Systems Administrator
> ingenta plc
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