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LilmanHSU
Level 3
11 years ago

Large Job Spanning Multiple Drives

Hi,   We have an Quantum i500 Tape Libraray with 6 drives and lots of available slots.  We have a backup job that we would like to create to backup approximately 150TB on a single volume.  Volu...
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  • SymTerry's avatar
    SymTerry
    11 years ago

    Hello, 

    NetBackup has a feature called Multistreaming. Multistreaming sends data from a single client to multiple tape drives. This assumes that you have a high end client that can send data faster then the tape drives can write to improve efficiency.

    Check out TECH31512: What is Multistreaming and how is it turned on? Also see TECH10085: What is the difference between multiplexing and multistreaming?

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Yogesh_Jadhav1
Level 5
11 years ago

Further to Ron's suggestions - Enable multi-streaming so that each folder backup will get a dedicated drive and Backup will take considerable less time compared to a single stream backup.