Eugene,

I am not sure what you mean. To clarify, my tape library has two LTO-5
tape drives. I want this backup to go to whichever one of those two drives
is available, not to a specific drive all the time.

On 6/1/2011 9:19 AM, "Eugene Vilensky" <evilensky AT gmail DOT com> wrote:

>Hi
>
>Can you not remove all but one device from the groups configuration?  (Or
>remove group from all but one device, remove this pool from all but one
>device). Used to do this quite a lot on 7.2 iirc.
>Sent via mobile.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: "STANLEY R. HORWITZ" <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
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>Date:         Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:01:56
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>Reply-To: EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU>,
>        "STANLEY R. HORWITZ" <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
>Subject: [Networker] Limiting a client to one of two tape drives
>
>Greetings everyone,
>
>I have one Linux client with four TB worth of data spread over four mount
>points. This client is in its own savegroup, which has a tape pool devoted
>exclusively to it. I want its backup to be limited to only one of the two
>tape drives in my tape library. I have been playing around with different
>settings, but every time I try it, the backup mounts two tapes even though
>each drive has 16 as its target sessions value. This is with NetWorker 7.6
>SP1 on a Linux box.
>
>If anyone has any ideas on how I can do this without setting a pool target
>limit of 1, please let me know.
>
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