would be to set up a different policy for each client & associate a different volume pool with each policy. That would be the only way I could see that you would guarantee no cross-over between tapes & clients.

I presume this is at the clients request that their info not be mixed with any other or a similar such requirement? Certainly not any operational advantage to this!

***EDIT***
I presume you have the resources for this? Enough tapes, drives, large enough backup-window?

Hi Andy,

Yes , we've enough resources for backup, Does the below listed change will work  during the backup?

In Policy :

Attributes TAB:

Uncheck Limit jobs per policy

Schedule TAB:

Media Multiplexing as default 1

So that all the clients run at the same time and write the each backup into different tapes. Does this work?

We've shared drives and enough tapes.

Regards,
Mohan.

 Team,

I need your help, any updates on this?

Regards,
Mohan.

i thin Andy just gave you the correct answer to your question. that i guess is the only way you can guarantee that backups will not be mixed up.

ok, Thank you..

If your goal is that you don't want client A's data on the same tapes as client B's data, the as Andy said you need separate volume pools, and each clients servers need to be in their own policy

policy - clientA - volume poolA
policy -- clientB - volume poolB

if you just want to write to 4 tapes at once  then just turn off multiplexing and it will force it to run one job to each tape drive, but if client A has 2 servers - you could see get client A data on the same tape as client B.

Just depends on what your goal really is.

Hello

I do not think that it should be a best practice,

Think about soma tape loss,

U will lose a HUGE amount of data.

Here we get 4 pools

sun
mon - Thu
tue - fri
wed - sat

if I lose a tape from the mon-thu pool I'll still have the day after backup.

a single tape is a sinlge point of failure..

Maybe U should create a pool w/ tapes and set te policy to use it,

if the schedulle runs at the same time, the job will get som tape from that pool.