How to tell which clone job is writing to which device?

Something I would really like to be able to determine. I have a number of
clone jobs running, more than I have tape drives for the job to write to.
But using NMC, I can't tell which clone job is writing to which tape
drive. And I can't go by the duration listing of the running job, since a
job could be in a running state for hours, before a tape drive freed up
for it to write to. So a job could actually have a run duration for 4
hours, but has only actually been writing to a device for 5 minutes.

Is there any way to tell that? I can't think of any. Can you?


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No you can't ... unless you assign a tape drive to a specific pool.
The idea behind that is that NW should be able to move to the next device ... if your have one assigned to that pool.

What we did was that we used our DD to store the backups on multiple DD Boost devices/media.
By using scripted cloning we then started a clone job for the new save sets on each disk device.
Such allowed us to optimally clone these save sets.

But even more important:
- cloning is running independently from backup
- you always have unmultipled backups on tape - optimal for restores

Of course you need a (DD Boost) disk for the backup.