In your storage unit configuration, change the number of drives to one less
then the actual number of drives known to the Master/Media.

This will guarantee that only X number of drives are used for backups and
the full amount of drives known to the Master/Media will be used for
restores.

Ex. for 2 restore drives in a 16 drive TLU

1 Master/Media
1 TLU w/ 16 drives

Storage unit setup:  Number of drives 14

This gives you 2 dedicated and 14 possible restore drives, but only 14
backup drives.

James Dean
Enterprise Backup Systems, Manager
USinternetworking Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: John_Wang AT enron DOT net [mailto:John_Wang AT enron DOT net]
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 2:49 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Reserving one drive in robot for reads




Hello

Is it possible to rotate through the drives and always keep one reserved for
restores?   How?

Regards,
John I Wang
Sr. Systems Engineer
Steverson Information Professionals

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PH (713) 345-6238


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