Concurrent writes to two robotic drives with one backup job

[Jeff_Welsh]

I have a quantum autoloader with two robotic drives. However, my backup job only writes to one drive at a time. The free backup software that came with the drive wrote to both jobs concurrently. I upgraded to Backup Exec for the advanced features, however the backup job takes almost 30 hours. I do have the Library Expansion Option. Does Backup Exec concurrently write to two robotic drives?

[Ken_Putnam]

With two jobs, yes. With one job, no.

You can split your job into two and run them both at the same time

[Amruta_Bhide]

Hello,

As Ken said you will need to split the job and let it run on different Drives.

Please let us know if you need further help.


Thanks
Regards

[Jeff_Welsh]

That is unbelievable. The Tapeware that was supplied with my drive wrote to both drives concurrently. I only have one server, and have no need for multiple jobs. What a pointless waste of time.

[Jeff_Welsh]

What is your recommendation for splitting a backup into multiple jobs. I have one server, and want to do a full backup. The server is Windows 2003 Small Business Server. I have exchange and several SQL Server 2000 MSDE databases. The server is on two partitions with a total size of approximately 160GB.

[Ken_Putnam]

How much data is on the Exchange and SQL backup?
How much aside from the two databases? (Flat file data)

[Jeff_Welsh]

Exchange is 25GB and SQL is 5GB
Flat file data is 100GB