how can i configure the tape to wait for 30 minutes?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Prasanth Mudundi" <pmudundi AT comcast DOT net>
To: "Donaldson, Mark" <Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com>
Cc: "'Sen'" <discussion.groups AT gmx DOT net>; "Pearce, Andrew W."
<apearce AT kforce DOT com>; "'Steve Dvorak'" <sdvorak AT veritas DOT com>; 
"netbackup-l"
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Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 10:23 AM
Subject: Re: [BackupScripts-L] RE: [Veritas-bu] tape usage


> we noticed this problem on over servers where tapes are half empty...
> so  we made the tape wait in the drive 30 minutes before getting eject.
> the effect of this is there is always a tape loaded. when the tape fills
> ... business as usual. worked for us like a charm.
>
>
> hope that helps....
> cheers.
>
>
>
> Donaldson, Mark wrote:
>
> >So this is a standalone or stacker drive unit?
> >
> >If it's ejecting the tape before full and loading the next in line, you
have
> >to either have everything at the same retention or use the
> >ALLOW_MULTIPLE_RETENTIONS.  You also can use the NO_STANDALONE_UNLOAD
> >keyword to keep the tape from being ejected before it's full.
> >
> >-M
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Sen [mailto:discussion.groups AT gmx DOT net]
> >Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 7:39 AM
> >To: Pearce, Andrew W.; 'Steve Dvorak'; netbackup-l; nbu-lserv;
> >veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> >Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] tape usage
> >
> >
> >i have 2 drives in the loader.
> >1 job with 2 streams, mutiplexing set to 1
> >any help?
> >
> >----- Original Message ----- 
> >From: "Pearce, Andrew W." <apearce AT kforce DOT com>
> >To: "'Steve Dvorak'" <sdvorak AT veritas DOT com>; "'Sen'"
> ><discussion.groups AT gmx DOT net>; "netbackup-l" <netbackup-l AT 
> >yahoogroups DOT com>;
> >"nbu-lserv" <nbu-lserv AT dsihost-srv01 DOT com>;
> ><veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
> >Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 7:42 PM
> >Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] tape usage
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>How many tape drives to you have in you loader?
> >>
> >>If you have 4 drives and 4 or more jobs scheduled to fire at once
(without
> >>multiplexing) you will pull 4 tapes, one for each available drive.  If
> >>
> >>
> >this
> >
> >
> >>is the case, you could try (in order of personal Preference):
> >>1. Grouping the jobs into 1 or 2 policies and change the "Limit Jobs Per
> >>Policy" to 1 or 2 accordingly.
> >>2. Staggering your schedule
> >>3. Multiplexing if it is justified
> >>4. Only allow 2 drives at a time for backup
> >>
> >>Andrew
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Steve Dvorak [mailto:sdvorak AT veritas DOT com]
> >>Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 12:07 AM
> >>To: 'Sen'; netbackup-l; nbu-lserv; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> >>
> >>Check out the "Allow multiple retensions" capability.
> >>
> >>Steve Dvorak
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Sen [mailto:discussion.groups AT gmx DOT net]
> >>Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 7:46 PM
> >>To: netbackup-l; nbu-lserv; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> >>Subject: [Veritas-bu] tape usage
> >>
> >>
> >>hi,
> >>I have a pool if 10 tapes which is configured for full backup. This
backup
> >>only requires 2 tapes, however, if there are 10 tapes in the library it
> >>
> >>
> >will
> >
> >
> >>use about 4 tapes.
> >>
> >>How can i force NB3.4 to continue appending data on those tapes which
> >>
> >>
> >still
> >
> >
> >>have free space before moving on the other new tapes ? thanks
> >>
> >>
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