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[Veritas-bu] Netbackup - 2 drives doing backups in the same time.

2007-01-21 18:52:14
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup - 2 drives doing backups in the same time.
From: jpiszcz at lucidpixels.com (Justin Piszcz)
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:52:14 -0500 (EST)

On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, felipe intaasqui wrote:

> Hello
> 
> First, i will explain how my enviroment is configured. I have a robot, model 
> L20, that is connected to a Solartis 8 that is master, media and client (i 
> doing this for tests), my robot has 2 drives, both of the same density and 
> model.
> 
> My problem is, i want that each one of this 2 drives execute one backup of 
> different polices simultaneously.
> 
> Things that i configured:
> I have one storage unit, configured with maximum concurrent drives used for 
> backup seted for 2.
> All drives and robots are configured. and the volumes and polices are 
> created.
> in the host properties > Master server i set up the option maximum job per 
> client with the value 2.
> When i tried to to a manual backup with the polices in the same time, both 
> started in the same time, but when it reach the mounting tape fase, the 
> second drive only mount the tape when the first backup is finished.
> 
> Is this possible to be done ? Am i forgeting something ? Is there an easy 
> way to do this ?
> 
> thanks in advance
> Felipe
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There are 3-4 places you need to check, but the next one is multiplexing, 
do you have multiplexing enabled on your storage units?  Do you have it 
enabled in your policies?  Do you have the maximum number of jobs > 5-10 
in the master config?

Justin.

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