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Backup Plans

You should plan a backup strategy that is appropriate for your SAN configuration. You should consider the impact of multiple Arcserve Backup servers sharing a single device. For example, if your backup device contains two tape drives and there are five option servers sharing the media libraries, you should not schedule five backup jobs to begin simultaneously. This would force the option to determine which two of the five jobs to begin first. Instead, you should carefully consider and schedule the start times for jobs to meet your backup strategy and allow you to control the schedule sequence.

Note: Each scheduled backup job waits in the queue until a tape drive is available to perform the backup.