Hi Bob
Thanks. I am extremely serious about DR, but wanted to clarify if the phase
1 import process was going to look for the volume pool the tape originally
came from.

If phase 1 works ok, and phase 2 completes, where does the tape get stored
and in which volume?

That is what I wanted to clarify :-)

Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator 

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-----Original Message-----
From: bob944 [mailto:bob944 at attglobal.net] 
Sent: 07 June 2006 08:17
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Cc: WEAVER, Simon
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] RE: import requirements (was: 3 Quest...)


> I just had an afterthought!! Lets ASSUME I remove the policies and 
> volume pools?
> 
> What if I have to do an IMPORT of 3 year old tapes??
> 
> What happens?

You just import them, phase 1 (build metadata file) and 2 (build files
file); the import depends on nothing.  I'm piggybacking on Carlos' correct
response that neither policies nor pools matter here to make this point:  if
you are serious about DR, it is important to grasp the concept that a
NetBackup data tape is self-contained--it needs _nothing_ other than a read
drive and tar.  Installing NetBackup and using bpimport is much easier, of
course, but the point is that knowledge of the originating environment is
neither necessary nor useful to import and restore NetBackup data.

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