Sure...  well, I haven't implemented it but give it a try it should
     work...  I TAKE THAT BACK... one of my servers has no major activity
     so I tried it... all the defines went well

     Just define an alternate device class... same as your existing one.
     For one device class set the mountl=4 and on the other one set the
     mountl=2  then it won't matter what drives are available it will only
     use 4 for work with a destination of a storage pool with a deviceclass
     of the mount limit of 4 and blah blah blah same for stuff leading to
     the mount limit of 2.

     later,
           Dwight



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Subject: Using separate tape drives for stgpools.
Author:  ASAmerman (ASAmerman AT LEGGMASON DOT COM) at unix,mime
Date:    6/23/98 3:14 PM


Hi,
 I want to know if anyone has tried this and if it can work or not...
 We have 6 drives in our STK9714 library, I want to know if I can assign
2 of the 6 tape drives to be used for making an offsite copy pool.  So
the normal scheduled backups are done on 4 of the drives and the offsite
copy pool is made with the other 2.
Would this work?

Thanks in advance,

Shane


Anthony Shane Amerman
Legg Mason, Corporate Technology
UNIX Systems Engineer
410-454-3081 25th Floor