Excellent question for this list!!!

NOTE: I have had no formal training and all that I know is a catch as
catch can self-taught methods. I look forward to talking my boss into
sending me to TORONTO to meet the support team while going to class
there or to our friends in MASS @ . My only other visit to Canada was to
visit my friend (at least that is what the restraining order says I call
her) Shania Twain in Vancouver BC. 

It will be interesting to read the various POOLING methods used.
Personally we use a fairly basic INCREMENTAL, FULL, ASR, DEFAULT pooling
system. EMC support recommended one tape labeled as default ALWAYS. It
is eating a tape slot but ok. ASR tape is one slot. Incremental is 10
slots and FULL takes up the rest. Like you have said I have on occasion
needed as many as 4 different tapes to complete a restore.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion 
> [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On Behalf Of Ben Harner
> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 11:13 AM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: [Networker] Backup Pools
> 
> Hey All,
> 
> I am in the works of changing our backup schema and I have a 
> question about pools.  Now we have maybe 20 servers in our 
> network and was playing with the idea of having a pool per 
> group in order to ensure certain servers are on certain tapes 
> so recovery time will be minimized and so I can recover more 
> than one server at a time if need be (we have more than one 
> tape drive).  Right now we have 2 pools with our main campus 
> servers on one pool and our satellite campus servers on the 
> other pool.  Are there any issues beside needing a lot of 
> tapes with using 6 or 7 pools in order to have certain 
> servers on certain tapes.  Does it degrade performance of 
> backups, etc....
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Ben
> 
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