Werth, Dave wrote:
> Stan,
>
> I've been following this thread with interest.  It's apparent that there 
> probably is no solution within NetWorker for your problem.
>   
Never tried, but NMC check Media from upper row, select Media Pools and
pool properties Selection Criteria and Target devices select your
preferred tape device.  This solution need own pool, but i think this is
only method or use cron job which disable/enable drives.

Regards, Riku
> Perhaps you could write a cron job that monitors that status of the tape 
> drives, say every 5 minutes, and modifies whether they are enabled or 
> disabled as necessary.  That's a poor substitute for something built into 
> NetWorker but it may get the job done.
>
> Dave
>
> Dave Werth
> Garmin AT, Inc.
> Salem, Oregon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
> On Behalf Of STANLEY R. HORWITZ
> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2011 5:49 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] Limiting a client to one of two tape drives
>
> Unfortunately, that would not work because I need to have the other tape
> drive available for group cloning.
>
> On 6/5/11 3:41 PM, "denis.mail.list AT free DOT fr" <denis.mail.list AT free 
> DOT fr>
> wrote:
>
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> what about providing only one or two tapes available to the server ?
>> Making the others read-only with nsrmm (under Linux, you can script this
>> in an easy way).
>>
>> Denis
>>
>> ----- "STANLEY R. HORWITZ" <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU> a écrit :
>>
>>     
>>> 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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