yes.

bpbackupdb -ev MEDIAID -p POOLNAME -tpath TAPEDEV \
/usr/openv/netbackup/db \
/usr/openv/netbackup/var \
/usr/openv/volgmr/database \
/usr/local/data/drplan.doc

And its good when you are doing offsite vaulting of 
your duplicated images.  In this way you are able to 
say that you have your system at a particular point in 
time, including your drplan.doc.  Remember that 
bpbackupdb will backup anything you tell it, so using 
it like this will also ensure you meet those offsite 
requirements of your DR Plan too.

As a matter of habit, I use -ev in the command line 
above, but I believe you can use -rv as well. 

-David Chapa

Quoting clifford thurber <cthurber AT concretemedia DOT com>:

> Hello,
> Is there a way to backup up the netabackup database 
onto a specific tape,
> one that isnt in the netbackup pool? Is there a good 
reason not to do this.
>
> Right now my offiste dupes take up four tapes which 
is how many slots we
> have in our CAP. So it is more convenient for me to 
write database backup
> to one of those four tapes instead of ejecting a 
fifth tape which would be
> from the netbackup pool. Any feedback would be 
greatly appreciated. I tried
>
> the following command to write a backup to a specific 
tape that wasnt in
> the netabackup pool and got the following error:
>
> root@tapehost/ >bpbackupdb -tpath /dev/rmt/2cbn -rv 
CIB017
> media open error
>
> Cliff
>
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