Yes, I can confirm that the second clone job (B) will start writing to
another volume and reading from another volume.  You'll need a total of
4 drives for the example here.

I wish the software would somehow interleave/jump into the first clone
as you describe and make the write speed go up but it doesn't.

Robert Maiello
Thomson Healthcare


On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 07:22:00 +0100, Davina Treiber <Treiber AT HOTPOP DOT COM> 
wrote:

>George Sinclair wrote:
>> Not sure if that's the right way to word this but here's a few questions
>> that seem to fit the bill:
>>
>> 1. What happens if I have job A that I'm cloning to a given pool, which
>> I kicked off as:
>>
>> A: nsrclone -b pool -S ssid1 ssid2 ssid3
>>
>> and then, after that's been running for a while, I then launch another
>> clone operation B to the same pool as:
>>
>> B: nsrclone -b pool -S ssid4 ssid5
>>
>> Now, we're assuming that the device is not maxed out so it won't ask for
>> another tape in that same pool, and we're also assuming that the data
>> that's being read for job A is on a different tape than the data that's
>> being read for job B (guess it would have to be or NetWorker would have
>> a little fit). I assume it will then start multi-plexing the streams
>> from B into those already running from A? Seems like it should as this
>> is what it does for regular backups but just checking.
>
>No, it definitely doesn't do that. Each clone session requires a
>separate volume to write to.
>
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