I've experienced several annoyances with staging as implemented in Networker:

First, staging devices are officially only supported with one device per
filesystem.
This is very limiting if you want to stage to volumes that are in different
pools.  One
company I know turned automatic staging completely off and had to write
their own
scripts to stage savesets and then re-label volumes that were all setup in
the same
filesystem.  There was no other way to pool the diskspace they had for
staging and
they needed a lot of staging volumes.

The one-volume per file-system limitation makes for very inefficient usage
of diskspace.

--PLB

At 01:35 PM 10/30/2002 -0500, David W. Loveless wrote:

Are you using the staging features of Legato Networker to push backups
first to disk and later to tape?
If you are, we'd like to hear about your experiences. What problems have
you had? What disks are you using? Have you purchased any add-on software
from Legato to help the staging process.

We're currently running Networker 6.1.1 on Solaris 8 and are actively
exploring this feature.


Thanks for your help!

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