What Terry says is true.  How I have tackled this problem is to set pretty 
aggressive staging once the disk device reaches 10%  full I start the 
staging process, I also spent a lot of time planning what clients get 
backed up to which device in the hopes of avoiding this issue.  I have 
also learned that striping (i used veritas to do this) disk from one data 
center to another is a bad thing to do...  the latency causes time-outs 
and NetWorker doesn't like that...  Just thought i would share that last 
bit...


- Terry


Terrence R Haupt
SR UNIX Systems Administrator
Abbott
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Nope.  That is the way the AFTD is designed.  Unless you want to terminate
existing backups, and restart  them to use a second AFTD device with more
room, the only other way is to remove savesets in the current AFTD device.
You can do this in a number of ways, including deleting them or staging 
them
to another volume.

tl 

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Subject: [Networker] Backups to adv_file can't span volumes?

I have 4 1.5 TB adv_file devices. It's split up that way because Linux 
2.4 isn't terribly happy about > 2TB physical volumes, and because it 
affords some parallelism in cloning from adv_file to our 4 tape drives.

One volume filled up, and I was surprised to find a backup hanging on 
"waiting to free adv_file space..."

Is there any way to convince NetWorker (7.2.1, Linux) to continue the 
save onto an adv_file device in the same pool that has room, as it would 
do with tapes?

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