Re: [Veritas-bu] Script Restores?

On 1/7/08, Paul Keating <pkeating AT bank-banque-canada DOT ca> wrote:

Sure, look up bprestore.

But, is there any reason you wouldn't just connect a 9840 to your new
system, import the tapes and dupe the image to LTO3.
I'd give it a try before going the restore -> backup route.

This is an excellent suggestion since the restore/backup route has many issues. First, all of your expiration dates will be recalculated doing this. Secondly, you're going to have fun duplicating your incremental backup images... Restoring a full, backing it up, and then restoring separately an incremental and backing it up probably won't give you what you started with.

Paul's approach is a good one - get NetBackup to duplicate the image to LTO3 then expire the images on the 9840s. You can probably find a 3rd party that can duplicate all those images to a new format too.

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> Is it possible to script restore jobs? I have about 20 9840
> tapes containing about 100 jobs on a NB 5.1 system that I
> need to restore and then copy the data over to a new location
> to be backed up in NB 6 to LTO3. Doing it manually is taking
> forever since I have to do one job at a time. Any help is
> appreciated, I don't want to be doing this for the next month
> straight.

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org

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