I don't know about "standard" but the catalog backup portion of my offsite
script does this:

1. check to see if there's a tape in the library in the "offsite_catalog"
pool (vmquery)

2. If not, change a scratch tape to this pool and mark it "assigned"
(vmchange & vmquery -assignbyid)

3. mount the tape (tpreq)

4. backup the catalog to it (bpbackupdb -m <tapenum>)

5. unmmount it (tpunmount)

6. eject it (vmchange)

This is all outside the usual backup-to-two-alternating-tapes default stuff.

HTH - Mark

-----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 dante
sparda
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:27 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Backup Catalog offsite


Hi,

What's the "standard" procedure to offsite the backup
catalog for DR purposes? I do monthly full backups and
send the tapes offsite. I want to send offsite the
catalog backup after all the monthly jobs are done.
Currently, I have 2 tapes configured for catalog
backups. Do I just send the latest catalog backup tape
offsite then add a new tape to the pool? What are
other ways to achieve this?

I'm fairly new to Netbackup. I have searched the
archive but could come up with anything concrete. I'm
still confused. Thanks for any advices on this matter.
BTW, I'm running NBU 5.1 with MP2 on Solaris 9 with
StorageTek library.

Thanks,
Dante


                
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