What about setting:

Client parallelism: 1

Or figure out how many sessions it is putting to one device and set the
client parallelism to that number.

Drive 1: 3 sessions
Drive 2: 1 session

Then set client parallelism to 3 ...


On 6/1/11 1:41 PM, "STANLEY R. HORWITZ" <stan AT TEMPLE DOT EDU> 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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