Sounds like you lost some storage unit groups in the upgrade. It's all pretty easy to configure any way you want it, especially with only five clients, and five backups. I wouldn't get too hung up on the number of policies - usually it's via multiple policies that you achieve the perfect session profile.
My understanding:
a) Clients A, B, C start at 23:00, and use one drive.
b) Clients D and E start at 01:30, and use the other drive.
My questions:
a) Are the jobs wildly different in size GB/TB?
b) Are the clients very different in power/capability?
c) Do you use SSO, i.e. are one or more of the clients SAN media servers? If so, how many?
d) Are the clients of different O/S type, and/or different agent type? If so, please specify type vs client A,B,C,D,E?
e) Are some clients more important than others? If so, which ones?
f) Are the retentions diferent between clients? i.e. are some backups for some clients retained for longer than other clients? If so, please specify.
g) Are some incremental and/or full?
h) When must backups be completed by?
P.S. You'll only need to add more drives if you haven't got the tape head bandwidth to support your data volume.
I'm sure that if you answers some of the above questions, without giving away server names, then myself and/or others will be able to help you generate your ideal profile of policies and schedules.
Message Edited by David Rawson on 07-19-200709:41 PM