2 tape drives and arcserve 11?

I acknowledge this is perhaps not the place to ask the question, but
Novell's forums are far more useful than CA's!
Basically, we've added another U320 SCSI card into our NW6.5 HP Server, and
connected a second Ultrium 2 tape drive.
Can Arcserve drive 2 tape drives, for the purposes of backing up 2 seperate
areas, to seperate tapes?
Cheers, Alan

On 24/05/2011 15:49, Alan Thompson wrote:
> I acknowledge this is perhaps not the place to ask the question, but
> Novell's forums are far more useful than CA's!
>
> Basically, we've added another U320 SCSI card into our NW6.5 HP Server, and
> connected a second Ultrium 2 tape drive.
>
> Can Arcserve drive 2 tape drives, for the purposes of backing up 2 seperate
> areas, to seperate tapes?
Answered in the (OES) NetWare (6.x) Server Backup support forum @
http://forums.novell.com/novell/nove...erve-11-a.html
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jcw av wrote:
>
> We're running SLES 10 SP3/OES2 SP2 on a Dell server with an IBM LTO-4
> tape drive and Arkeia Network Backup software. Sometimes our backups
> fail because the tape drive, /dev/st0, has disappeared from the system.
> The server may run for weeks or just days before it happens - we can't
> find any pattern. The only solution we've found is to reboot the
> server. Then /dev/st0 is visible again, and the tape drive works
> fine.
>
> I've called Dell about this multiple times over the last two years.
> They've replaced the tape drive, and we install the latest firmwares as
> they become available. Dell doesn't seem to know what to do any more,
> figuring it's an OS issue.
>
> Any suggestions on how to (1) troubleshoot the problem, (2) prevent it,
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>
>
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