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OpsAnalyst
Level 4
12 years ago

Tape usage extremely high

We just upgraded our entire Netbackup system to 7.5.0.4 and we feel we are using far too many tapes.  We have four dedupe appliances and they are all duplicating to one LTO5 tape library with twelve ...
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  • Mark_Solutions's avatar
    Mark_Solutions
    12 years ago

    The setting is under Devices - Server Group

    Add a Media Sharing Group

    But from the number you stated it still sounds like something else may be wrong

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Marianne
Level 6
12 years ago

Another reason for high media usage is lack of Media sharing. 

If you enable global media sharing, all media servers/appliances can append to the same tapes.

Without media sharing each media server requires own set of dedicated tapes.

Try to limit amount of volume pools as well.