Well it won't go away on the tape and it depends on how the job was
setup that would define when the image expires within the catalog. You
could always import the tape contents if the image retention is expired.
The image retention is usually set within the policy schedule attribute.


-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Lowenstein [mailto:dlowenst AT mail.sdsu DOT edu] 
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 2:45 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting without vault?

So if i just manually eject the tape its catalog information won't go
away? Or is there a command line program i run to say "this tape is
going
on vacation" ?

i plan on doing the long term stuff manually. As much as this sucks, it
will only be a once per month thing.



Dave Lowenstein
Analyst/Programmer
Instructional Technology Services
San Diego State University
(619)594-0270
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/its

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Donaldson, Mark wrote:

> The trouble with a "long term" tape is getting it in before the backup
> starts.
> 
> If you use a scratch pool and the "long term" tape isn't available,
then NB
> will just grab a scratch tape and create a new one.  You'll end up
with a
> lot of half-filled long-term tapes.  If you can control, therefore,
the
> scheduling of the long-term backups and the tape availability through
an
> external process, then you'll be ahead.
> 
> Tapes, however, removed from a library or loader are still tracked
normally.
> Restores from tapes that are out of reach will generate a pending
request
> that has to be manually handled.
> 
> -M
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Lowenstein [mailto:dlowenst AT mail.sdsu DOT edu]
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 11:06 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting without vault?
> 
> 
> I have nb business server 4.5 fp3 and a small autoloader with 9 tapes.
I
> am interested in removing some tapes from the autoloader and replacing
> them with blanks. When I need to do a long term backup I would like to
> then like to put in the 'long term' tape for the duration of the
backup,
> and then remove it again, replacing it with the prior tape.
> 
> how do i do this without accidentally deleting tapes?
> 
> is it possible to remove tapes from the loader but keep them in the
> catalog?
> 
> 
> Dave Lowenstein
> Analyst/Programmer
> Instructional Technology Services
> San Diego State University
> (619)594-0270
> http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/its
> 
> 
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