Stream count in NVBU. (4036339)

What its the stream count in NetVault Backup?

Only able to stream 8 jobs to the DR4100 RDA device by default.

NetVault Backup by default only allows 8 streams of data for the DR4100 device.  The total for the NetVault Backup software is based on the fact that the %netvault%\config\foreignras.cfg file has the number of Streams set to 8 during the creating of the initial RDA container.

NOTE: When changing the number of streams, existing containers on the DR4100 will not be updated with the stream count change, therefore it will be necessary to create new containers on the DR4100.

To increase the number of streams (maximum value = 32).

1. Leave the existing containers as it is for now
2. Verify that there are no jobs running, then stop the NetVault backup service
3. Edit the  %netvault%\config\foreignras.cfg
4. Change the number of Streams from a value of “8” to “32”
    
   foreignras.cfg file
    
   [Performance:SoftStreamLimit]
   Value = 32
   
5. Start the NetVault Backup service
6. Create new RDA Container (s), they will now have 32 Streams since the configuration files was changed.
7. The jobs that were targeting the old RDA containers have to be modified to start writing to the new RDA Container that just created.
8. Once the data on the old containers have expired, delete the old RDA containers