That's one of the big drawbacks I've seen with adv_file and why I don't use
it. You could use file devices and that would do what you want, but of
course has its own drawbacks... 

-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
On
Behalf Of Terry Lemons
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 2:46 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Backups to adv_file can't span volumes?

Nope.  That is the way the AFTD is designed.  Unless you want to terminate
existing backups, and restart  them to use a second AFTD device with more
room, the only other way is to remove savesets in the current AFTD device.
You can do this in a number of ways, including deleting them or staging them
to another volume.

tl 

-----Original Message-----
From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
On
Behalf Of Rich Graves
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 3:16 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: [Networker] Backups to adv_file can't span volumes?

I have 4 1.5 TB adv_file devices. It's split up that way because Linux
2.4 isn't terribly happy about > 2TB physical volumes, and because it
affords some parallelism in cloning from adv_file to our 4 tape drives.

One volume filled up, and I was surprised to find a backup hanging on
"waiting to free adv_file space..."

Is there any way to convince NetWorker (7.2.1, Linux) to continue the save
onto an adv_file device in the same pool that has room, as it would do with
tapes?

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