Robotic Libraries - 2 Drives

[Abbott_Falak]

We have a tape drives (powervault 132T) that contains 20 tapes. It also has two drives (Drive 1 and Drive 2). Since we will be running full backups every night, I want to allocate two tapes for a backup job to run simultaneously. In other words, I want backup to throw mailboxes at a tape in Drive 1 and oracle data at a tape in Drive 2 at the SAME time.

Now I do see Under Powervault 132T two drives: Drive 1 and Drive 2. But somehow I cannot assign 10 slots to Drive 1 and 10 slots to Drive 2, for example.

Any expertise on this will be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Abbott.

[Ken_Putnam]

You cannot assign slots to a drive, but you can create partitions in your loader, then point specific jobs to specific partitions

See
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/206843.htm
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/206843.htm
http://seer.support.veritas.com/docs/262055.htm

[Rucha_Abhyankar]

Hello,


Please let us know if the earlier provided solution has helped you in resolving the issue.


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[Abbott_Falak]

Actually, my specific question was not on slots and partitioing but on (2) seperate "SCSI drives" that comes within the dell 132t tape device.

Let me rephrase what I want to accomplish. I want backup jobs to run simultaneously. For example, instead of one long backup job of all servers, I want to split one big job into two and run them at the same time ( oracle job on Drive 1 and Exchange job on Drive 2) on the same backup box.
Tape drive has two SCSI each going to seperate drive. (drive 1 and drive 2).

Let me know if it can be done.

Really appreciate your efforts towards resolving this.

Thanks,

[Ken_Putnam]

Out of the box, BackupExec supports one library with one tape drive installed. If you want to use a second (or third, fourth etc) drive, you must purchase and install one LEO (Library Expansion Option) for each additional drive.

When you have done this, you may run as many concurrent jobs as you have tape drives.

[Deepali_Badave]

Hello,

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