10-19-2009 07:34 AM
10-19-2009 07:53 AM
10-20-2009 08:25 AM
Thanks for your comment.
I'll reference your opinion.
10-20-2009 08:29 AM
10-20-2009 08:48 AM
10-20-2009 09:06 AM
the thing you have to get into your head is that you can have storage units that total more then the number of your drives.
The red ones are my master/media - the first storage unit has 6 drives I use this storage unit on most of my policies
the second storage unit is also my master - but for this storage unit I said only 1 drive
I use this storage unit on my Hot Catalog policy.
If I have 10 drives I could have
su1 = 10 drives
su2 = 9 drives
su3 = 8 drives
su4 = 7 drives
su5 = 6 drives
su6 = 5 drive
that's 45 drives in all but no one storage unit has more the my total number of drives
so it is just a mater of making a new storage unit with 1 drive in it and have the catalog use that storage unit.
10-20-2009 09:33 AM
10-20-2009 10:02 AM
you are talking about backing up the Hot Catalog on the master using the master as your media server.
you do not have to change anything on what your currently have for backing up the clients.
you have a policy called Hot_Catalog_Backup
in this policy you have it set up to use a storage unit - the one you currently use is set to 10 concurrent drives.
CREATE a NEW storage unit - set that storage unit to 1 concurrent drive.
change ONLY the Hot_Catalog_Backup policy to use this new storage unit that has 1 drive.
the backups of your other polices continue to work as they always have using the storage unit of 10 drives.
10-21-2009 12:10 AM
I understand your description.
All drives are shared drive, so it is shared by other SAN media server.
But these SAN media servers only can back up local data, it's not possible to back up the other clients.
Therefore, we use master server to back up the network client's data.
So we have to set the max drive num to maximum.