When NBU backs up to disk media what
actually gets put on the disk?  Is it the files
being backed up or a series of tar files such
as it would write to tape?

  Robert;

  Depending on what your customer is trying to
do another possibility is to send incrementals
to disk storage and fulls to tape.

Ray

"David A. Chapa" wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure of what they are ultimately wanting, but
> without using HSM you could do as you described.  Then
> I would run bpduplicate to duplicate those images on
> disk to a tape storage unit (which I'm fairly certain
> you can do).  If the disk is only to be used
> temporarily, then you'd want to expires those imags on
> disk after the duplication and then change the new
> primary copy to 2 for restoration purposes.
> 
> With HSM,  you could use it to migrate those images
> stored on the Disk storage unit to tape.  the only
> problem there is for restores.  You'd have to demigrate
> then do the restore.  Whereas in the first example your
> restores would come right from tape.
> 
> just a thought.
> 
> david
> 
> Quoting "Buck, Robert M"
> <BuckRM AT northamerica.stortek DOT com>:
> 
> > I have a customer that is currently using NBU and
> backing up directly to
> > STK
> > tape drives in STK silos. They now want to backup to
> disk first and at some
> > later time move that data to tape. What is the
> cleanest way to do that. I
> > know Veritas has a HSM utility but I have never seen
> it. Is that the best
> > way to go? Are there other options? Could you just
> make a "disk" storage
> > unit" and backup to that first then backup to tape as
> a different SU next?
> > Any other ideas would be greatly appreciated. The
> shop is a open systems
> > shop, mostly sun.
> >
> >
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