i have 2 drives in the loader.
1 job with 2 streams, mutiplexing set to 1
any help?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pearce, Andrew W." <apearce AT kforce DOT com>
To: "'Steve Dvorak'" <sdvorak AT veritas DOT com>; "'Sen'"
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Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 7:42 PM
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] tape usage


> How many tape drives to you have in you loader?
>
> If you have 4 drives and 4 or more jobs scheduled to fire at once (without
> multiplexing) you will pull 4 tapes, one for each available drive.  If
this
> is the case, you could try (in order of personal Preference):
> 1. Grouping the jobs into 1 or 2 policies and change the "Limit Jobs Per
> Policy" to 1 or 2 accordingly.
> 2. Staggering your schedule
> 3. Multiplexing if it is justified
> 4. Only allow 2 drives at a time for backup
>
> Andrew
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Dvorak [mailto:sdvorak AT veritas DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2003 12:07 AM
> To: 'Sen'; netbackup-l; nbu-lserv; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>
> Check out the "Allow multiple retensions" capability.
>
> Steve Dvorak
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sen [mailto:discussion.groups AT gmx DOT net]
> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 7:46 PM
> To: netbackup-l; nbu-lserv; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] tape usage
>
>
> hi,
> I have a pool if 10 tapes which is configured for full backup. This backup
> only requires 2 tapes, however, if there are 10 tapes in the library it
will
> use about 4 tapes.
>
> How can i force NB3.4 to continue appending data on those tapes which
still
> have free space before moving on the other new tapes ? thanks
>
>
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