Just an idea, can't you use two groups.  Have one group with the clients
with less files, start it, then have a second group with the other
systems start a few minutes later.

My understanding is that the first group started will get priority for
the drives.

Jon




On Sat, 2005-06-25 at 14:39 +0200, Oscar Olsson wrote:
> Is there any way to configure NetWorker to add new saves to one drive at a 
> time, up to the number of target sessions of the drive or similar? As it 
> is now, load is spread evenly among the devices. This is a problem when 
> you have a few troublesome clients, that have 386 trillion files each, and 
> thus hog each drive with a never-ending save for hours and hours. It would 
> be good if one could somehow get all those slow saves onto one drive.
> 
> One idea that I have is to create a dedicated pool for this type of 
> clients, and then locking that pool to only one drive, but that doesn't 
> seem like the most elegant solution..
> 
> //Oscar
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