After your backup process and before you physically send your tapes
off-site, run a vault process that creates a database tape (Vault
profile/Database Backup tab).  Create a NBDB_Database volume group for these
tapes and configure that within the Vault profile.  NBU Vault will take care
of cycling these tapes for you.  You can have a NBU Backup policy configured
to run this process daily or at some set time after your backup processes
are completed.

Matthew Moody
MCSI

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Jim
Langston
Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 11:06 AM
To: Veritas-Bu (E-mail)
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Catalog Tape Rotation


I'm curious and in need of some input.  We implemented our Veritas backup
solution back in October and we've had no problems at all.  My concern is my
DR plans.  We do weekly full backups every Friday night and cumulative
backups every other night.  We do montly's on the last day of each month.  I
am using vault's in-line copy and I send that second copy offsite; diffs go
offsite for a week, weekly's go off site for a month, and monthly's go
offsite for a year.  I have 2 catalog tapes in my vault, but they never go
offsite.  In the event I have a true disaster, I have my tapes that I can
bring back on site, but without my catalog tape, I'll have problems right?
So what is the best practice for catalog tapes being rotated out of the
library?

Thanks

Jim Langston
Unix Systems Administrator
Northeast Medical Center
jlangston AT northeastmedical DOT org



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