v5.X of NB allows inline-tape-copy native to the base application.  It's no
longer part of vault.  For versions before 5.x, ITC is part of Vault.

-M

-----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 Moses,
Darby
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 8:22 AM
To: Dean; dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] duplication vs multiple copies


Don't you have to have a Vault license to perform an inline tape
duplication?

Best Regards,
Darby Moses
 

> -----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 Dean
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 8:47 PM
> To: dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] duplication vs multiple copies
> 
> Using inline copy should be more efficient than taking the 
> backup then running bpduplicate later.
> 
> Using inline copy, to take a one hour backup, you will use 
> two tape drives for one hour = 2 "tape drive hours".
> 
> Using bpduplicate, you would take the original backup (one 
> "tape drive hour"), then run the bpduplicate which would use 
> two tape drives for another hour, making a total of = 3 "tape 
> drive hours".
> 
> 
> On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 13:51:55 +0000, Dave Markham 
> <dave.markham AT fjserv DOT net> wrote:
> > Im after some advice.
> > 
> > Netbackup 5.0 MP3 on Solaris with 2 media servers.
> > 
> > I backup my network clients over night and have a requirement for 
> > offsite storage.
> > In order to keep a restore capability on site i need to 
> duplicate my 
> > backups.
> > 
> > I was wondering what people preferred to do. I have seen 
> the multiple 
> > copies function which i can write to a different vol pool, 
> or i could 
> > just duplicate the images written.
> > 
> > Im wondering how you can automatically run the duplication job when 
> > allbackups have finished because you dont know what time 
> that will be.
> > 
> > I was thinking of launching a duplication script from cron and 
> > checking if any jobs are still running with the output of "bpdbjobs 
> > -report |grep -i active" but dont know if this is a clean way
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Dave
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