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If there are tape drives available in the Storage Unit & the settings are correct on the policy, the jobs should multi-stream (but will not multiplex).
We backup 2 NetApp filers through 3 different policies with streams backing up snapshot areas of selected volumes/qtrees. One policy has 10 streams (separated by NEW_STREAM directive) limited to 2 jobs/policy another has 8 limited to 2 & the last 3 limited to 3 jobs/policy. All use the same Storage Unit consisting of 3 drives. They all start at approximately the same time on a Monday morning & continue until Wednesday. Three streams (from any combination of policy) utilise the 3 tape drives & the rest queue expectantly until a drive becomes available.
On top of that, at each month end there are a further 3 separate policies for one of these filers (one stream each) & they all run happily together.
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