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Possible to write 2 jobs to same tape library simultaneously?

David_Jennings
Level 5
We currently have a Dell PowerVault 132T w/ 1 tape drive installed attached to the SAN backing up data. In an effort to move away from some DLT tapes that we are using we had thought of using the 132T to perform that backup job as well, but that would increase the backup window and have it extend into the work day. The library does have the capability of adding a 2nd tape drive, so I was wondering if it was possible to have one job use Drive 1 and the other Drive 2 so that both jobs could run at the same time? If so, would both jobs suffer a tremendous hit in performance?
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Ken_Putnam
Level 6
You can have as many concurrent jobs as you have target media devices (tape drives or B2D Folders)

With today's server hardware, you should have no problem running concurrent jobs, but depending on your network toplogy, running two at the same time may run slower than back to back, but they should both still end before the run time for Back-to-back jobs