For the policy you want to multi-stream, is the Allow Multiple Streams box checked in the Policy Attributes?

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Jeff Cleverley <jeff.cleverley AT avagotech DOT com> Sent by: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 06/11/2009 09:35 PM

To veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu cc Subject [Veritas-bu] Using multiple drives with NDMP.

Greetings,

I've got just about all the bugs worked out of the new test environment except 1.  I can get my NDMP policies to back up more than one file system at a time.

I've got a 6.5.3 environment running on linux.  I've got a library (tld0) with 4 Gen 3 Ultrium drives.  I've defined a media manager storage unit because I'm doing remote NDMP.  I've set up 3 test policies, 1 standard and 2 NDMP.  All policies work fine one at a time, or either NDMP policy will run at the same time as the standard policy.  The storage unit is set to allow the use of 4 drives and also allow multiplexing (for the standard policy).  The policies vary on the number of jobs per policy.  One is set to 9 and the other is not set.  One NDMP policy has 3 file systems to back up and the other has 1.

When I run the policy with 3 file systems, it only runs one at a time to one tape.  The other 2 just queue.  I've tried putting in the new stream directive between them in the includes file but it didn't help.  I can get them all to work one at a time but can't get them to backup more than one NDMP file system at a time.  Is there some bp.conf directive I need to create?  

Any help pointing down the correct path would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff
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Jeff Cleverley
Unix Systems Administrator
4380 Ziegler Road
Fort Collins, Colorado 80525
970-288-4611
jeff.cleverley AT avagotech DOT com