I think the only "supported" Symantec way to recover is to build a SiteA
and SiteB Master in your SiteC and restore from Catalog.  Other than
that, you are in the woods / on your own.  That said, I've been able to
build wonderful / live DR configurations with one remote site acting as
the DR site for another etc... I always make a Catalog tape and ship it
offsite (just in case) but I think you'll find Netbackup is a very
stable product and you can pretty easily "fool" it into doing just about
anything you want.

Just for the hell of it I just ran this test.

Created a DSU-TEST on Master #1 bound to \\localhost\DSU-TEST (Master is
6.0 MP4)
Backed up 4.5GB to this DSU
Copied the contents of that DSU to \\MASTER2\DSU-TEST
Copied Veritas\Netbackup\Db\Images\client folder to \\MASTER2
Created DSU-TEST on Master #2 bound to \\localhost\DSU-TEST (Master is
6.5.1)
Restored data to c:\temp
Checksums matched original data backed up.

Note: Alternate restore host from Master 1 to Master 2 was already in
place from pervious testing.

So in retrospect - this works great.  I do the same thing with Media for
"fast" DR restores. (pre-catalog recovery stuff.)  What Netbackup
doesn't know won't hurt it (although Symantec support is another beast
entirely. :)

-Jonathan





-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz AT lucidpixels DOT com] 
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 1:56 PM
To: Martin, Jonathan
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Question: Is this possible?



On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Martin, Jonathan wrote:

> As a test only (we never used this in production) I was able to FTP 
> individual DSU images across the WAN to our DR site.  Unfortunately, 
> once they got there I had to run a script to import them which took 
> forever.  If I had to do it again, I might try and use UNCs so the 
> import isn't necessary.  Something like...
>
> 1) Write to DSU \\Backup\Share
> 2) FTP Catalog and Image to Remote Site
> 3) Try and read back from \\Backup\Share (different local DSU called 
> the same thing.)
>
> I've had success with FTPing the catalog and reading back from media, 
> and I've had success FTPing DSU images, but I haven't had time to test

> both.
>
> -Jonathan
Interesting..  So there are some ways to 'work it' per-se-- but there is
no real 'supported-by-symantec' method of replicating backups across
master servers?

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