Unless you're using SSO, in which case I don't know of any way to do this.

For example, 12 media servers using SSO to share a library with 10 drives.
Each media server would have to have at least 1 drive for it's STU and many
media servers may require more than one (i.e. a dedicated media server may
have 3 or 4 drives for it's STU).  In this example it would be very easy for
all the drives to be used, leaving none for restores.


- Scott



                                                                                
                                                   
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I think you can find this answered a few times in the archives...but here you
go.


Let's say you have a total of 10 drives available for your backup server.
When you create your storage units, make sure the total number of drives
configured in all the storage units totals to 9 drives.  This will prevent
NetBackup from using that 10th drive for backups because it's not in a storage
unit.  Since NetBackup doesn't use storage units when it's performing a
restore, that 10th drive WILL be used for restores.  This has been around
since at least version 3.2


HTH


Steve White


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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Drive only for Restores





Hi all,


is it possible in some way to tell NBU 3.4.1 to keep a drive always
available for restores? Or is there a workaround or any other way to do
this?
I would not like to have a drive down all the time if possible.
Will a special feature be implemented in 4.5?


Thanks for your help.


Andreas Christen        Direktion Informatik VBS


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