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sc5
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2 years ago

Is it possible for a single backup job to write to multiple tape drives simultaneously

Hi

This question has been asked before but was back in 2011 and the answer was no back then so I am asking again as its been such a long time that I am hoping this has now made it into backup exec.

Is it possible for a single backup job to write to multiple tape drives simultaneously? We have a very large server circa 200TB+ and it takes a couple of weeks to backup currently.  We currently backup through windows I want to change to virtual machine backup with file recovery to remove performance hit from the VM, ideally one backup job so only a single VM snapshot is taken rather than multiple jobs for individual VMDKs and multiple snapshots then being taken which I don't even know if that would work anyhow.

Thanks for any help.

  • You can split the backup job to multiple backup job and select different tape drives

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      sc5
      Level 2

      I am trying to avoid that as I dont want to take multiple snapshots of the VM as the backup job takes a week or two to complete hence why I require to use 3 tape drives for 1 single job.