Back-up exec 2010 R3 multiplexing?

[JosVerhallen]

Hi,

We are wondering if Symantec Back-up Exec 2010 R3 supports multiplexed back-ups.

we have an HP D2D appliance with a VTL configured with 4 drives. Can we have back-up exec, back-up to all 4 drives at the same time?

Kind regards,

Jos Verhallen

[AmolB]

Multiplexing is not available in Backup Exec.

You will have to split the job and run as individual jobs.

[I_T_Guy]

Mulitiplexing as a feature is not available in Backup Exec (its a fetaure with Veritas Netbackup). However it does not stop you from using all 4 of your tape drives at the same time. You can run 4 different jobs simultaneously by selecting individual drive for an individual jog under Destination.

[Ken_Putnam]

You can run 4 different jobs simultaneously by selecting individual drive for an individual jog under Destination

or by just pointing your jobs to "All Devices" and let BE decide which drive to use for each job

[teiva-boy]

Multi-plexing means you are backing up multiple servers simultaneously, and each backup stream is interleaved together to a single stream to write to tape.  Folks do this to achieve faster speeds, to write to tape, and prevent shoe shining of the tape drive.  What you are describing is NOT multi-plexing.

Since you have a VTL, you can create as many drives as you need (obviously you should buy the VTL option for BackupExec) and create multiple smaller jobs to write to your tape pool.  Create 10 VTL drives, BackcupExec doesn't care as long as you're licensed correctly.

However, a cheaper option would be to create a CIFS share on your HP D2D, and write to a Backup to disk folder.  This way you do not have to buy any more licenses for BackupExec.  You would still run multiple concurrent jobs to disk.

[Colin_Weaver]

Multi-streaming would be an option where your data is distributed to mulitple storage devices at the same time

http://www.backupcentral.com/wiki/index.php/What_is_the_difference_between_multiplexing_and_multistreaming%3F

That said Backup Exec does not support either. You can get multiple backup jobs to one B2D location. Although in reality this is separate media files (so not multiplexing). You can also target mutiple tape jobs to separate drives all connected to the same server, but you can't target one backup job to multiple devices (multi-streaming)