Hi,

There are several ways you could approach this but there are also obstacles.

First i do not understand what you mean with mounts (is that filesystems, as 
in /data1, /data2, ... ).

Second if you set the drive paralellism to 8 then because of client parallel 
is also 8 all 8 backups tend to go to only one drive. To force the use of 4 
drives set dive paralellism to 1 or 2. With a client paralellism (you have 
only one client if I understand right), this will distribute the data streams 
to all drives. 

Now note: it is also important to understand how your data is organized on 
this 800Gb is this one big Raid box or are this separate dirives (not 
partitions) tell me more about that as it could influence the speed of your 
backup if you start reading 4 or 8 datastreams from the same disk/raidbox.

hope this helps a bit and feel free to ask more

Maarten 

On Friday 16 September 2005 07:51, Turgay Çavdar wrote:
> We are using networker version 7.1.2 and 4 tapes in the jukebox. We have
> got one client and it has 800 GB of data (32 mount). We planned to divide
> this 800GB of data to 4 parts (approx. 200GB and 8 mount in each part) and
> use every tape so the Backup time will be very short. We create 4 group and
> in the client we set for 8 mounts for every group. Server parallism is 32,
> client parallelism is 8, group parallelism is 8, each tape has a target
> session value set to 8. In this configuration when we start 4 group only
> two tapes are used. Why we cant use 4 drives at the same time? (Jukebox
> parallism set to 4)
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