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There's two ways to do this, one is dependable, the other
is less so.
The undependable way, and I don't recommend it, is to
configure media sharing and then time all the times to occur at different
times. With luck, they'd all grab the shared tape, mount it locally, and
write all the backups sequentially on the tape.
Fat chance and darn near impossible.
The other ways is to force the backups across the network
to a single media server and multplex them onto one tape. Tapes will
multiplex multiple servers but only through one media server at a time. I
do this with my log file backups, gathering all the security related logs for
long-term storage onto a single tape nightly.
Create a policy with your filelist in it. Choose what
storage unit (& media server) you want to use. & populate your client
list.
Create your schedule(s) as usual and set
your multiplexing factor on them to whatever you want. Don't exceed the
max-multiplexing factor for your storage units you chose
above.
Go back to your attributes page and set the "max jobs
per policy" to whatever your multiplexing factor was that you used on your
schedule.
So - when the job kicks off, it'll start a backup job
on every client in the client list. Only the "max jobs per policy" will go
active, though, and the rest will queue. One tape will mount on your
media server and it'll start to multiplex that many client backups to that one
tape. As each client completes in turn, a queued client will go active and
continue to that tape.
HTH - M
| Hi,
I'm currently using NBU 6.5 MP3, the environment is consisted of 54
media servers and 24 LTO4 tape drives. Each of the media servers have 2
policy each. I would like to configure 20 out of 54 media servers to write
data to a single tape using one single drive only (assuming that the data
is small enough to be written to a single media). How do i achieve
that?
What's happening currently is that these 20 media servers will use 20
tape drives to write to 20 tapes or these 20 media servers will write
using a single tape drive but still to 20 different tapes. Both of the
scenarios mentioned is not acceptable.
Thanks
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