Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] DB backup tapes and DR

2006-12-05 12:23:41
Subject: [Veritas-bu] DB backup tapes and DR
From: ddunham at taos.com (Darren Dunham)
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2006 09:23:41 -0800 (PST)
> Ok I have a DR question for everyone. I have 3 sites. All 3 of them have
> master servers. All sites do tape vaulting and send their tapes to the
> main site for DR storage of a week and then are sent back. However, the
> db backup tapes for netbackup do not get vaulted out. I tried this once
> and when the db backup job ran the next day for the one remote site it
> complained about not having its netbackup tape in the robot. So my
> question is, How does everyone else handle remote sites that have
> masters and db backup tapes?  Our main site backs up to disk so that is
> not a problem but the smaller remote sites keep their tapes onsite. Any
> ideas or suggestions?

Vault should have an option to duplicate your DB tape to include in the
vault.  Do you have that set?  Is it getting duplicated and not
included, or is it not getting duplicated?

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham at taos.com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
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