[THIN] Re: OT: Backup with two tape drives
- From: Evan Mann <emann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 10:26:48 -0500
You can write to the multiple drives at once on the same SCSI bus.
Optimum setup might be a second card for a dedicated second bus, or
moving from a single controller card to a dual controller card
Can't speak for any limitation of BackupExec. We use CommVault and it
writes simultaneous to multiple tapes at a time (as many as you have and
want to pay licensing for). There's no point in having more then 1
drive if only 1 is ever used at a time.
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From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Matthew Shrewsbury
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:22 AM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] OT: Backup with two tape drives
If I add a second tape drive (LTOII) to the same SCSI buss can I stream
to both tapes simultaneously? I need more capacity but I don't want to
add a second backup server. I'm running BackupExec 8 if the software is
the limiting factor.
I was under the impression that most of the time backup software backups
up to the first tape then the second.
Thank you,
Matthew Shrewsbury
Network Manager
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