Problem with policy taking new media from scrathpool

[erikd]

Hi,

i have 4 Tapedrives in my robot running netbackup 7.1

I have a couple of policys running fullbackup with mulitplexing set to 4. Say i have 2 media located in my Pool1 and 2media from scratchpool.

When netbackup ques jobs say around 15 of them, it uses 8 of them to write to each media in my pool1 (4per tapedrive). But then it fetches new media from scratchpool to use in my other drives.

How do i force the policy to wait and use my already existing media in pool1 until they get full, and then get new media if it needs too.?

/Erik

[Marianne]

Use the "Maximum number of partially full media" attribute on volume pools to force NBU to 'wait'.

See "Volume pool properties" in :

NBU Admin Guide for UNIX and Linux, Volume I  http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC3650

NBU Admin Guide for Windows, Volume I  http://www.symantec.com/docs/DOC3653

[AnotherUnknownV]

Hi,

You want your policy to use a maximum of 2 tapes at a time, with a mpx of 4 ... so that's 8 jobs at a time for your policy.

That's in the Policy attributes that you got a default of unlimited simultaneous jobs per policy : limit jobs per policy is unchecked ... set it to 8 !

Note that the mpx does not count the parent jobs ... only the data streams jobs.