After the successful duplication, you'd like to make your duplication the
new primary copy by:
    $NBU/bin/admincmd/bpduplicate -npc <pcopy> -backupid <bid>
where pcopy = new primary copy number you desire (1=primary)
      bid = backup id as shown in the Images on Media report

This is all documented quite clearly on page 317-323 of NBU SAG.

Wyatt

-----Original Message-----
From: David A. Chapa [mailto:david AT datastaff DOT com]
Sent: Tuesday, 8 August 2000 3:03
To: RYAN C. ANDERSON
Cc: Veritas NBU
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Change media ID?


This is what I would do

tassgn=`vmquery -m EXISTING_MEDIA_ID -bx | awk '{print 
$12}'`

this gets the date that the existing media was 
assigned.  This will be used to duplicate the images on 
the tape.

You can duplicate this to the same pool that you use 
for all of your backups (typically NetBackup pool).  Or 
if you'd like create a unique pool with one volume in 
it and make that your destination pool.

bpduplicate -id EXISTING_MEDIA_ID -s $tassgn -dstunit 
DESTINATION_STORAGE_UNIT -dp DEST_DUP_POOL -L LOGFILE

Everything is somewhat self-explanatory, the -s is the 
start date to use for the duplication, you want the 
date it was assigned because that will cause it to 
duplicate all images (I don't believe you need to give 
it a -e end time) from the beginning of its assignment 
to present.

Naturally I suggest that you confirm through the log 
file that all of the images have been successfully 
duplicated.

Once this duplication is done you can follow the 
balance of the instructions in the manual.  bpexpdate 
the existing media, etc.

Perhaps someone from veritas can confirm whether or not 
the npc (new primary copy) is set to the newly 
duplicated images after a bpexpdate is done on the 
existing media.

That should do it for you Ryan.

Good Luck

David Chapa

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Quoting "RYAN C. ANDERSON" <ryan_anderson AT udlp DOT com>:

> All:
>
> I need to import the data on a DLT tape made by 
NetBackup from a
> different server to my database.  The problem is that 
it has the same
> media ID as a tape I already have.  The NBU 3.2 Sys 
Admin's Guide has on
> page 329 a *brief* description of how to deal with 
the problem, but I
> don't understand how to actually do it.   It says:
>
> "To import from a tape that has the same media ID as 
an existing tape on
> this server, first duplicate the existing tape to 
another media ID."
>
> I can't find instructions on how to duplicate the 
existing tape to
> another media ID.  Does anybody know how to do this, 
or where to find
> this out?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ryan
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