We have five sites that are all running Veritas BackupExec. At each site we have two tape drives that are in a user-created drive pool. When drive1's tape fills up it does not spill over to drive2's tape.
All sites have only one user-created drive pool and one media set. All media sets are set for no overwrite protection. All backup jobs are set to use the user-created drive pool and media set.
Here is our configure per site: Sitename, BackupExec version, drive types.
Site1, be 8.6r3878, DLT 64k & 8mm 8k.
Site2, be 8.5r3572, DLT 32k & DLT 32k.
Site3, be 8.6r3877, DLT 64k & DLT 32k.
Site4, be 8.5r3572, DLT 32k & DLT 32k.
Site5, be 8.6r3878, DLT 32k & DLT 32k.
As you can see we are running a few different version of BE as well as different drive types. All servers are Windows 2000 with either SP3 or SP4.
Please help,
Thanks.