Interesting, but what's not clear is does it pick the dedicated
drives always for restoring unless of course, you initiate several
recoveries at once?

In other words, how can you prevent non dedicated drives from being
used ever for 'recoveries' and have every recovery done from
dedicate drives only.  Thanks.

-ravi

On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Dean, James wrote:

jimmy>In your storage unit configuration, change the number of drives to one 
less
jimmy>then the actual number of drives known to the Master/Media.
jimmy>
jimmy>This will guarantee that only X number of drives are used for backups and
jimmy>the full amount of drives known to the Master/Media will be used for
jimmy>restores.
jimmy>
jimmy>Ex. for 2 restore drives in a 16 drive TLU
jimmy>
jimmy>1 Master/Media
jimmy>1 TLU w/ 16 drives
jimmy>
jimmy>Storage unit setup:  Number of drives 14
jimmy>
jimmy>This gives you 2 dedicated and 14 possible restore drives, but only 14
jimmy>backup drives.
jimmy>
jimmy>James Dean
jimmy>Enterprise Backup Systems, Manager
jimmy>USinternetworking Inc.
jimmy>
jimmy>-----Original Message-----
jimmy>From: John_Wang AT enron DOT net [mailto:John_Wang AT enron DOT net]
jimmy>Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 2:49 PM
jimmy>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
jimmy>Subject: [Veritas-bu] Reserving one drive in robot for reads
jimmy>
jimmy>
jimmy>
jimmy>
jimmy>Hello
jimmy>
jimmy>Is it possible to rotate through the drives and always keep one reserved 
for
jimmy>restores?   How?
jimmy>
jimmy>Regards,
jimmy>John I Wang
jimmy>Sr. Systems Engineer
jimmy>Steverson Information Professionals
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