Configure each of your storage units on each of your media servers to n-1 
drives so you will have one drive available for restores.

You could script this so you have ALL drives available for backup then at a 
given time re-configure the STU's to n-1 for restores during the day for 
example.


David

Quoting Oliver.Schade AT colt DOT de:

> Hi everbody,
> 
> 
> I am using NBU 3.4 with some DLT-drives and would like to:
> 
>  a) always reserve a drive for restores
> 
>     e.g. backups should be done to (n-1) drives and the
>     first and all following restores will be done by the
>     n.th drive.
> 
>     I did not found a way to configure restores to a higher
>     priority than normal jobs or even an automatic break
>     of one or more jobs to free a drive for a restore-
>     operation.
> 
>  b) cancel a (schedulded) backup while restoring to a client
> 
>     While running a restore job to the client a scheduled
>     backup job may be started. Both jobs will slow down 
>     by hours and therefore I would like to cancel a schedulded
>     backup when running a restore...
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Bye, Oliver
> 
> P.S. Please do not send HTML-mails! Thanks.
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