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new_nb_user's avatar
12 years ago

Creating a Storage Unit using only 1 drive out of 2 configured to same host - is this possible?

Hi all - would appreciate some help on this topic. We are currenly moving from Alexandria Backup Software to Netbackup software and have 2 tape drives attached to the same host. We would like to crea...
  • Marianne's avatar
    12 years ago

    Unless you manually configure the drives with different densities, it will not be possible to create a different STU for each drive.

    Different drive densities will require media to be configured with different densities to match drive densities.

    There is normally no need to have different STU's. NBU will load balance drive usage automatically. Maybe you can tell us why you need to have different STU's?

    You can limit the amount of drives that each media server is allowed to use by reducing the Max Concurrent Drives in STU properties.