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Utilizing multiple tape drives at the same time

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Hello,

I have a Quantum Scalar i40 with three LTO6 drives in it. For some reason, Acronis Backup only seems to want to use one drive at a time. If one job is running, two will just sit there waiting for the job to complete even though there are two free tape drives. My goal is to have all the tapes in one tape pool and to run three jobs simultaneously. Is that possible?

Thank you,

Ryan

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Hello Ryan, in case if single backup plan contains several machines, once it is started, each machine takes any available drive and backs up simultaniously. If there is only one machine in the backup plan, currently it can use only one drive.

Acronis is working on ability to write backup of single machine to several streams using several drives at once. This functionality will be available in one of the next updates.