Hello All
Im sure someone can clarify how I achieve the following: thanks in advance for any responses.
My aim is to switch netbackup configs on the fly such that I re-arrange
the storage units : the true aim is so I can morph my backup infrastructure
from a weekend mode to weekday mode: weekend is all drives up for DR backups
, weekday is to use a reduced subset of drives for DR backups , leaving say
3 drives for adhoc backups, online oracle backups, restores etc that run
through the working day.
Having read the doc, Im supposed to use bpsturep -cj to reduce the number
of concurrent jobs associated with my storage unit. Ive done this and then
used the storage unit and netbackup ignores my limit. That is, Ive set -cj=4,
checked its changed, then I kick of a cron job which runs 18 backups: and
all my tape drives in the storage unit get used. Ive not restarted any daemons.
I was expecting 4 drives to get used, the remainder of the jobs queueing.
The situation is quite complex: Ive got one robot, 9 drives, SSO across 5
media servers. All media servers have the same set of 9 drives in their storage units.
The job in question is initiated on the master server, but
the jobs themselves run on floating addresses that exist on one of two (clustered)
servers. Im not entirely sure the job is of any real significance, its the storage units and drives that ought to be dictating the desired outcome: the job just happens to request the storage unit.
Netbackup 5.1mp5, L180, LTO2, all solaris.