That was the old method we used for these backups. 

We need to go to disk as opposed to spinning up a tape drive for a 10
second log backup.

My requiremnts are getting the second tape copy while a copy exists on
disk still.

Adam.

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com] 
Sent: Monday, 6 August 2007 4:06 PM
To: Mellor, Adam A.
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] 5.1 Disk Staging & Vault Duplications



On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Mellor, Adam A. wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I believe i know the answer, but i will see if more experienced people

> have delt with this before.
>
> I have a Netbackup 5.1 (MP5)  environment, I have just added a new 
> disk staging storage unit for Database backups.
>
> I need to get two copies of these backups put onto tape, the first 
> copy is easy as the DSSU takes care of that ( with the retention 
> specified in the policy ). I seed to get a second copy made for 
> offsite with a longer retention.
>
> I have set up a Vault profile for these jobs however when it goes to 
> duplicate the images it failes with 190, the duplicate log says 
> skipping ... it already has 2 copies.
>
> Vault is counting the copy on the disk, and the copy made by the dssu 
> staging back to tape.
>
> Is this expected behaviour or is there some way for Vault to "ignore?"
> the temporary copy on disk. I imagine it is and my only option is to 
> up the "maximum backup copies" on the master.
>
> anybody been down this road before ?.
>
> thanks.
>
> Adam Mellor
> Senior Unix Support Analyst
> CF IT TECHNOLOGY SERVICES
> Woodside Energy Ltd.
>
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Did you try writing to tape on two separate volume pools?

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