I'm looking for suggestions on possible ways to solve a dilemma:

 

I have a requirement to back up two 12TB databases daily to disk and create a 2nd copy on tape to send offsite 5 days/week.  Also once a month I'll be required to make a 3rd copy on tape to send to a different offsite location.

 

I'm currently backing up each database in a separate policy and each policy has about 10 streams running from 4 hours to just over 12 hours; these backups start @ 18:00.  Because it would be pretty much impossible to have 2nd copies created and ready to send offsite the following day by noon, we've been given an extra day to send them offsite.

 

The problem is I don't want to wait until the last stream is finished before I begin to vault, because I'm wasting time waiting.  Also if I start my vaulting about 8 - 10 hours after the backups have started, I miss grabbing the last couple of streams that take greater than 10 hours to backup. 

 

So instead of vaulting I was thinking of manually duplicating streams as they finish; thus I could duplicate as soon as a stream finished, and I wouldn't be preventing my vault from running other vault jobs.

 

(I have other vaults that need to run, but unfortunately only have 1 library that can do the vaulting.)

 

Any suggestions on how to automate the duplication of each stream as it finishes?   My other problem is during the weekend in addition to the two 12TB databases, I have another 70TB to backup and try to vault and get offsite Tuesday morning.  I have 4 media servers and 63 drives to help me.

 

One thing that has helped is that I've stopped vaulting tape backups.  I just vault backups that have backed up to disk.

 

Thanks,

 

 

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