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

2011-06-01 16:58:43
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 16:57:53 -0400
Yes. That's the problem. Two of the four sessions go to one tape drive and
the other two sessions go to the other tape drive. It makes no sense.

On 6/1/2011 4:52 PM, "jee" <jee AT eresmas DOT net> wrote:

>Hi Stan,
>
>If cient parallelism is less or equal to the target sessions and no other
>backups from other clients are sent to those tapes while the linux client
>is 
>being backed up, does NW still use both tapes?
>
>jee
>
>
>On Wednesday 01 June 2011 21:41:31 STANLEY R. HORWITZ wrote:
>> 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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