Thanks, I ended up doing that. It's clunky, but at least it's only
temporary :)

-----Original Message-----
From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] On
Behalf Of Davina Treiber
Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2008 6:13 PM
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] backing up the bootstrap to storage node

Alex Alexiou wrote:
> Yes, I know Networker does not allow you to back up the bootstrap to a
> storage node. Unfortunately, the tape library attached to our backup
> server is down, so I would like to back this up to another library
> attached to a storage node until this is fixed. Any way to do this? Or
> even just back it up to disk somewhere? 
> 

You could back it up to a locally attached disk device. You could then 
stage it to tape on a storage node if you so desired. However - answer 
me this: if you had to DR your server and the bootstrap was on a storage

node, how would you run mmrecov?

This limitation is in the product for a good reason!

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