Arcserve Parallel Backups across 2 drives

[itmontyp]

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to backup data across 2 drives at the same time. i.e. have arcserve distribute the data automatically across the 2 drives.

Hardware

Hp Tape array
2 x Ultrium 320 tape drives
Arcserve 2000 sp4

Cheers

ITmontyp

So Long and thanks for all the fish

 

[mohamdr]

Hi
use BrightStor Enterprise backup and use MultiStreaming

regards
mohamdr

 

[TudorP]

You can also use the RAID option if you have another drive (has to be the same type though).

 

[speshalyst]

HI,


Configure 2 device groups using the device group manager..

assign 1 device to each group.

submit the backups to the groups ...

the jobs will run simultaneously...

Multistreaming is a litle different...

it is performing two jobs simultaneously to a single tape device...


cheers
speshalyst



So it Shall be Written!
So it Shall be Done!!

 

[TudorP]

Writting two jobs to one tape drive is called multi threading and is not yet supported. Multi streaming is when one jobs spreads the media to two or more drives.
By default, identical drives are placed in the same group (usually group0). Indeed, you can create anoter group and assign the second drive to the newly created group. Then you can run TWO jobs in the same time. That means you need to manually split your agents / volumes in two jobs, but that will assure you use your drives simultaneously.
NOTE: when you do this, you will have to provide a BLANK media at span point and mount it in the drive that spanned. ARCserve will no longer automatically span from Drive 0 to Drive 1 when the drives are not in the same group.