At 01:35 PM 9/6/00 -0700, Bob Bakh wrote:
>Speaking Product wise.  The vault extension would duplicate a set of classes
>and eject them at a given time, not right after the backup.
>
>You could do this using bpend notify and running bpduplicate and vmchange
>and so forth, but you would need one hell of a bend notify timeout.

Actually, NetBackup appears to fire off bpend and then leave it alone.  The 
jobs finish long before the bpend script does.  You'll also notice that 
there is no equivalent to a 73 for bpend.

>running bpduplicate on your own is also a viable solution, however it is a
>serial process and could take some time.
>
>BPVault uses all these processes and with some logic makes it a parallel
>process and can run during backup off hours.  (and it comes with MKS
>toolkit) =)

Worth the price, IMHO.
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