Hi All,
With regard to the Volume Pools in NBU 6.5, does anyone have a good definition for the 'Maximum number of partially full media' setting? The default value for this setting is zero, which suggests that there will never be a tape that's partially full. Yet there will always be a partially full tape at the end of your backups (unless, incredibly, the amount of data to backup is exactly equal to the capacity of the tapes).
I've wondered if I should change this to 1 but it seems to be working fine with the setting of zero. I have changed the setting to 1 on one of my Volume Pools and it seems to be working fine also.
Is this setting a way to control whether backup jobs append to prior jobs? I suppose if you have more partially full media then you'd have less appending to tape as a new job could start on a new tape and fill it partially.
I suspect I'm missing something obvious on this but it is vexing me.
Thanks! Steve
With regard to the Volume Pools in NBU 6.5, does anyone have a good definition for the 'Maximum number of partially full media' setting? The default value for this setting is zero, which suggests that there will never be a tape that's partially full. Yet there will always be a partially full tape at the end of your backups (unless, incredibly, the amount of data to backup is exactly equal to the capacity of the tapes).
I've wondered if I should change this to 1 but it seems to be working fine with the setting of zero. I have changed the setting to 1 on one of my Volume Pools and it seems to be working fine also.
Is this setting a way to control whether backup jobs append to prior jobs? I suppose if you have more partially full media then you'd have less appending to tape as a new job could start on a new tape and fill it partially.
I suspect I'm missing something obvious on this but it is vexing me.
Thanks! Steve