Assuming they all have the same retention, multiplexing, and media ownership 
(server group) so they can share a tape... Set all those policies to write to a 
particular volume pool. Then in the volume pool settings, set "Maximum number 
of partially full media" to 1. In that case regardless of when the jobs kick 
off they will queue up and wait for the one active tape to become available.


Mark .. wrote:
> 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
> 
> ------There are 10 types of people in this world; those that understand 
> binary and those that don't.-------
>                                       Abid


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