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Jeff_Welsh
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18 years ago

Concurrent writes to two robotic drives with one backup job

I have a quantum autoloader with two robotic drives. However, my backup job only writes to one drive at a time. The free backup software that came with the drive wrote to both jobs concurrently. I upgraded to Backup Exec for the advanced features, however the backup job takes almost 30 hours. I do have the Library Expansion Option. Does Backup Exec concurrently write to two robotic drives?

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  • With two jobs, yes. With one job, no.

    You can split your job into two and run them both at the same time
  • Hello,

    As Ken said you will need to split the job and let it run on different Drives.

    Please let us know if you need further help.


    Thanks
    Regards
  • That is unbelievable. The Tapeware that was supplied with my drive wrote to both drives concurrently. I only have one server, and have no need for multiple jobs. What a pointless waste of time.
  • What is your recommendation for splitting a backup into multiple jobs. I have one server, and want to do a full backup. The server is Windows 2003 Small Business Server. I have exchange and several SQL Server 2000 MSDE databases. The server is on two partitions with a total size of approximately 160GB.
  • How much data is on the Exchange and SQL backup?
    How much aside from the two databases? (Flat file data)