Hi,
        Yes you can run more that one scanner for different drives at
the same time. But Make sure that you have enough drives for a backup to
run in case it a backup is kicked off before the completion of the
scanner. 

Rovin D'Souza 
rovinabi AT gmail DOT com 

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From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Len Philpot
Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 8:45 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Can you run scanner for the same client
multiple times simultaneously?

> Michael Leone 
> 
> Is it possible to run "scanner -i -t sdlt320 -S xxxxx" for each tape 
> drive, at the same time? For example, scanning the 2008-03-31 tape in 
the 

This is certainly non-authoritative, but I was told several years ago by

(Sun) tech support that "it would be better not to run more than one 
scanner at a time". He didn't go into detail, but from personal
experience 
I've seen a scheduled backup kick off and try to use a drive already in 
use by scanner (i.e., it ejected the scanning tape, etc.). Now, that was
a 
few versions back, but since then I've always tried to run scanner on a 
quiescent system if possible.

FWIW.


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