I use a script that starts enough backup stg to use all my drives.  Then it 
checks periodically to see how many backups are still running and when enough 
backups have completed, start the next one, then wait again, until all are 
done.  If I were rewriting it today, I would count and wait on free tape drives 
rather than counting number of backup processes.

david

>>> joni.moyer AT HIGHMARK DOT COM 06/29/05 10:58 AM >>>
Hello Everyone!

I have an issue of drive shortage and I would like to cascade my backup
jobs of my storage pools.  I know that you first want to make the disk to
offsite tape copy and then the onsite tape to offsite tape copy for each
storage pool.  My question is, how do I combine all 14 jobs in a cascading
order so that they are only using a maximum of 6 drives at a time?  I
thought about putting them all within a script and running them with
wait=yes but I don't think that will give me exactly what I want to do.  If
anyone has any suggestions I would appreciate the input!  Thanks!

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