Hi Simon

You can start cloning a saveset as soon as it is complete.  If that saveset
is on a tape, then cloning will wait until all writing to the tape is done.
If that saveset is on disk in an Advanced File Type device, then you can
write savesets to the AFT device and read/clone from the AFT device at the
same time.  There are some restrictions to this currently; the Administrator
Guide covers them, I believe.

tl

-----Original Message-----
From: Simon McCartney [mailto:simon AT asidua DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 4:26 AM
To: lemons_terry AT emc DOT com
Cc: NETWORKER AT LISTMAIL.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: RE: [Networker] Backing up to a remote storage node.


> Hi
>
> Instead of doing an additional backup to your offsite area, you might
> consider cloning some/all of your existing backups.  That way, you
> client disks are touched only once, your client file index is updated
> only once, but you have two identical copies of those backups that you
> clone
> (replicate) to the offsite location.  You can replicate over the LAN
> between any two NetWorker storage nodes.

Hmm, yeah. When can you start cloning?  after the first tape or saveset?
Weekends are usually pretty dead for us, so hitting machines twice wasn't
really a concern, getting the stuff over the wire over the weekend was
(i.e. we run a Full on saturday night and incrementals after that)Out to
tape usually takes around 24hours at the moment.

Would another option be to change the schedule for the Offsite group, so
day Full & 1,2,3,4,5,6, where as the Default is a Full & i,i,i,i,i,i?
Thanks,

Simon.

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simon AT asidua DOT com
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