Hello List,

In NetWorker 7.1x it exist an undocumented feture. Called MBS (Multiple Balance 
Streams)  save -M 4 /BigFileSystem , for four streams of /BigFileSystem.

Br/Lars  

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From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
On Behalf Of Robert Maiello
Sent: den 27 juni 2005 19:03
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] How do you configure single saveset stream on multiple 
tapes?

If the saveset cannot be split up because the directories are changing
a hack could be a script that queries the volume,  gets a list of say
top level directories, and then uses nsradmin to modify the saveset list
of the client.  Finally a backup is run with this client definition.
A hack in the true sense of the word..

A compromise that I did on Netware once was to have 2 client definitions.
One client definition is split into top level directories for several
save streams.

The other defintion is saveset ALL, with a directive skipping all the
savesets in other definition.   The saveset ALL picks up new directories
that the first definition misses.

The real answer is to get the saveset size down for supportablility.


How many days does your 2TB saveset run?  Backing up to what type of drive.
(Just curious).

Robert Maiello
Pioneer Data Systems
On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 19:21:09 -0400, Raph <raph AT NETINFOSYSTEMS DOT NET> wrote:

>How do you configure single saveset stream on multiple tapes.  The
>majority of our data is a 2.0 tb NTFS file system.  At the root are almost
>1200 folders.  This poses an issue when it comes to utilizing the 4 Tape
>drives simultaneously. There is no simple way to break this up into save
>sets, as they are constantly being added and removed as projects come and
>go.   Do you know of anyway to make networker use all 4 drives?
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