Wonderful!  I figured that's how it would work, but I wasn't sure.

At 08:30 AM 8/16/2002 -0600, Donaldson, Mark wrote:

>A non-primary copy of an image is promoted to primary if the primary expires.
>-M
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: W. Curtis Preston 
>[<mailto:curtis.lists AT backupcentral DOT com>mailto:curtis.lists AT 
>backupcentral DOT com]
>Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 11:27 AM
>To: Jeff Kennedy; NBU List
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] disk stu and Vault
>
>At 07:46 AM 8/15/2002 -0700, Jeff Kennedy wrote:
> >I am backing up to a disk stu attached to master server.  I will use
> >Vault to duplicate the images from disk to tape and have the disk images
> >expire after 48 hours.  I created a vault and profile that duplicates to
> >the NetBackup pool using 3 drives and making these the primary copy,
> >skips the catalogue backup step, and e-mails reports that don't require
> >media to be ejected.
>
>This is a great idea, and something I'm trying to get a lot more people to
>do.  My only change is that I wouldn't make them the primary copy until the
>images have been expired from disk.  That way, recent restores will come
>from disk.
>
> >Do I need the catalogue backup step?  I am assuming that the catalogue
> >will get backed up after each successfull scheduled backup (that's how
> >it's configured) and didn't want NBDB_Backups or Datastore pools to get
> >full; especially since these are staying in the library.
>
>Use Vault to back up the catalog, and disable the other backup.  Vault's
>backup is MUCH better than the standard way.
>
> >Should I change the disk expiration to 120 hours and leave it as primary
> >for near-term restore performance?  If so, will the duplicates
> >automatically be promoted when the disk images expire?
>
>Leave the stuff on disk as long as you can.  That's a good question about
>the duplicates.  I'm not sure about that answer.
>
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