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Re: [Networker] Limiting a client to one of two tape drives

2011-06-01 16:42:07
Subject: Re: [Networker] Limiting a client to one of two tape drives
From: "STANLEY R. HORWITZ" <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 16:41:31 -0400
Unfortunately, that does not answer my question. I want to have two drives
selected at the pool level, but have the backup go to whichever ONE of
those drives is available.

On 6/1/2011 4:39 PM, "ldugarte" <networker-forum AT BACKUPCENTRAL DOT COM> 
wrote:

>>>>>>>>I have one Linux client with four TB worth of data spread over
>>>>>>>>four mount 
>points. This client is in its own savegroup, which has a tape pool
>devoted 
>exclusively to it. I want its backup to be limited to only one of the two
>tape drives in my tape library. I have been playing around with different
>settings, but every time I try it, the backup mounts two tapes even
>though 
>each drive has 16 as its target sessions value. This is with NetWorker
>7.6 
>SP1 on a Linux box.
>
>If anyone has any ideas on how I can do this without setting a pool
>target 
>limit of 1, please let me know. <<<<<<<<
>
>Hello.
>
>To limit your savegroup to use only one drive go to Media Pools and
>select the pool that is used for your group, then in the tab Selection
>Criteria you can see Target Devices. In this box, check the drive that
>you want your pool use and unckeck all others.
>Hope it help
>
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