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Jason_Burds's avatar
11 years ago

Storage allocation with "Any disk storage" selected.

I am not sure if other are experiencing this but when I select "Any disk storage" for my backups they will all go to the same SAN drive until it's full then move to the next one.  That's fine but it ...
  • Jaydeep_S's avatar
    11 years ago

    "Round robin on the drives" or cascaded device pool is a feature that was discontinuted since BE 2010. In your situation, you would need to manually target your jobs to specific Backup to Disk folders and not to 'Any Disk Storage'

  • Colin_Weaver's avatar
    11 years ago

    Just to slightly correct this, it was not discontinued by design and we are looking to correct this and put better logic into choosing disk storage devices into the next full release of Backup Exec. I believe that we are consdiering ability to make disk storge be chosen based on their free space as one of the options (slightly more useful than round robin)