I read the man page in the meantime. It's clear that I have to test it. I
already ran bpbackupdb in the past and there was no need to manuammy mount
a tape, the command does it for you. The only thing I'm not sure is whether
you can specify a media that is not one of the 2 configured media ids to be
used for catalog backups to tape. I will do some testing tomorrow.

Thanks,
Bruno





                                                                                
                                   
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If you read the man page for  it says you can give it
a tape device name and a media id. So you might need
to use a script to load a tape into a drive and then
run bpbackupdb. It's not clear if you can just give it
a tape drive device name and Media ID and have the
robot automatically mount the tape.



--- Bruno.Bossier AT comparex DOT be wrote:
>
> Can you tell bpbackupdb to take a backup to a
> specific tape ? If that is
> possible, then I could write some little procedure
> that searches for an
> available tape located in the robot and take the
> catalog backup to that
> tape. Afterwards, it's easy to eject that tape,
> together with the other
> tapes used for the normal backups.
>
> Thanks !
>
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>                     Douglas
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>                     Ritschel             To:
> Bruno.Bossier AT comparex DOT be
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>                     <dritschel62@y       cc:
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>                     ahoo.com>            Subject:
>  RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog backups offsite
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>                     11/05/2002
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>                     16:08
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> Use bpbackupdb to backup the catalog to a tape to be
> sent offsite.
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>
>
> --- Bruno.Bossier AT comparex DOT be wrote:
> >
> > We also duplicate all our backups, but it seems
> that
> > it's not possible to
> > duplicate a catalog backup.
> >
> > Any other ideas on how we can let catalog backups
> go
> > offsite ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >                     "Alonzo, Alex"
> >
> >
> >                     <Alex.Alonzo@t       To:
> > <Bruno.Bossier AT comparex DOT be>
> >
> >                     rw.com>              cc:
> >
> >
> >                                          Subject:
> >  RE: [Veritas-bu] Catalog backups offsite
> >
> >                     11/04/2002
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> >                     17:12
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> > Bruno
> > We dup all fulls (weekly,monthly, yearly) and send
> > them offsite once a week
> > we do have some clients that don't require Dups on
> > all there fulls so we
> > make
> > some adjustments to the dup_parms files.
> > Alex Alonzo
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruno.Bossier AT comparex DOT be
> > [mailto:Bruno.Bossier AT comparex DOT be]
> > Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 3:21 AM
> > To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Catalog backups offsite
> >
> >
> > What would be a good process to have daily catalog
> > backups which can go
> > offsite ? The idea is to run a catalog backup
> after
> > every daily or weekly
> > cycle and let the tape which was used for this
> > catalog backup go offsite,
> > together with the normal backup tapes.
> >
> > Bruno
> >
> >
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