New Feature Request for Tape Drive Multiplexing for GFS Media Pools

[inayama]

Hello,

I ran into an issue where a GFS Media Pool cannot write to two tape drives in the same library (Case # 03169710 ).

The Support Engineer told me that multi-tape writing is not supported on GFS Media Pools.

So I'm submitting a New Feature Request for Multi-tape drive capability for GFS Media Pools.

Thank you,
Tadashi

[serkantek]

+1 for this
I had the same issue over the weekend. We are not doing daily to tape so I have the luxury of configuring a tape job to run only once a week and have GFS job run Monthly, Quearterly & Yearly. My backup set is 70TB so its a little bit hard to get that to tape using one drive and LTO7
Hopefully there is not a requirement from our side to start doing daily tape backups before this feature comes in.

[SRMETAS]

+1 i have read in the forum that this feature should be here for almost 2 years. We hope that we don't have to wait another 2 years..

[Dima P.]

Hi folks,

Thanks for all your posts! This feature is planned for the next version. Cheers!