Suppose you create a SINGLE FILE SERVER with Multiple Directories.

|
|-FILES
|-MAIL
|-SQL
|-ETC

Then what you do is have your backups go from your servers, to this one
file server.
Then you have ONE backup run from that file server to tapes based on
Directory.

I know between technology and people who are running the disk based
backups there are methods in there for this.

Thoughts? /ALE

> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Shyam Hegde
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:24 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Backup Pools
> 
> You may not be able to run enough target sessions at once 
> (because of only few clients backing up at the same to the 
> drive) to keep your drive busy and prevent shoe-shining waits 
> affecting transfer rate, max data stored on the volumes and 
> drive/tape wear-outs.
> 
> Though all it again depends on the drive specifications and 
> network environments you have as well.
> 
> 
> On 9/21/06, Ben Harner <benjamin.harner AT marymount DOT edu> wrote:
> >
> > Hey All,
> >
> > I am in the works of changing our backup schema and I have 
> a question 
> > about pools.  Now we have maybe 20 servers in our network and was 
> > playing with the idea of having a pool per group in order to ensure 
> > certain servers are on certain tapes so recovery time will be 
> > minimized and so I can recover more than one server at a 
> time if need 
> > be (we have more than one tape drive).  Right now we have 2 
> pools with 
> > our main campus servers on one pool and our satellite 
> campus servers 
> > on the other pool.  Are there any issues beside needing a 
> lot of tapes 
> > with using 6 or 7 pools in order to have certain servers on certain 
> > tapes.  Does it degrade performance of backups, etc....
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Ben
> >
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