TAPE JOB - HOW MANY DEVICE IS USING ?

[superbike]

Hi, we have a mls3040 with 2 ultrium-9 drives. I set correctly the media pool and tape backup job for parallel drives usage. I have one single backup to tape job that write about 29TB of data. Inside the tape job there are many backup source job. I am pretty sure that both the drive work in parallell at the moment ( on different source job backup ) but I can't find any proof of that into the logs. The only think I can see is that the tape job create 2 media set so I suppose it's using both the drives ( the job is configured to generate a new media set every backup ).
So my question is, where can I see in the reports that veeam is using both the drives during the job ? ( ok, I can simply connect directly to msl manage console during the jobs and take a look at the tape drive status but I don't think this is the smartest way ).§
Let me know, thanks.

[david.domask]

Hi Fabrizio, welcome to the forums.

The fact that multiple media sets are created I think should help you confirm that it's using Parallel Processing. As noted in the User Guide, parallel processing will create and track a media set for each drive in use during the job, so you can confirm from the HTML report on the tape job if there are multiple media sets being used during the job run.

See the Important Tip on that page:

"When multiple media sets open simultaneously, they may have identical sequence number and time of creation. To distinguish between the media sets easily, use the %id% variable in the media set name. This variable is added to the media set name by default."

I think that's easiest way to track it, and it will be visible in the HTML report as well, focusing on the Media Set IDs.