Thanks for all of the replies.

I feel like I'm the only one that didn't know about the Advanced NetBackup
Scripting web site at  http://www.xbpadm-commands.com/
.  But you have to start somewhere.  Now it's time to play...

Thanks again.

Douglas L. Thomas
Unix Administrator
Great Lakes Gas Transmission
dthomas AT glgt DOT com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas, Douglas L. 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 1:39 PM
> To:   veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject:      Vault Alternatives?
> 
> Does anyone have an alternative to purchasing Vault, via scripts, etc.?
> 
> We are a small shop. When we are fully implemented we will have about 500G
> in Weekly Full backups.  Probably 1/3 - 1/2 that for Daily Cumulative's
> (too many databases).  $15,000 to $20,000 for Vault just seems extreme to
> set up daily off-siting of duplicate tapes.
> 
> I can manually duplicate tapes and then eject the tapes from the library,
> but there has to be a way to automate this without re-inventing the wheel
> or spending tons of money.
> 
> Our set up:
> NetBackup DataCenter 3.4
> Master Media Server on Tru64
> 4 Tru64 Clients
> 3 WinNT Media Servers
> 12 WinNT Clients
> Compaq ESL9198 Tape Library on Fibre SAN Network
> 
> Any assistance is appreciated.
> 
> Douglas L. Thomas
> Unix Administrator
> Great Lakes Gas Transmission
> dthomas AT glgt DOT com