Kathy:

One of the things you can do is to suspend the tapes 
you send offsite.

bpmedia -ev MEDIAID -suspend

this will make the tape valid for READS but no longer 
valid for WRITES until the last image on that tape has 
expired.

Netbackup will NOT request this tape for any backup 
jobs.

This is probably your best bet.

-David Chapa

Quoting "Collins, Kathy" <KCollins AT coral-energy DOT com>:

> Our main NetBackup backup server runs full backups to 
be sent offsite on
> Wednesdays.
> These backups go the the Offsite pool of tapes.  If a 
request to restore
> files from offsite
> data is made on Wednesday while the backups are 
running, we have run into a
> problem.
> When we put the restore tapes into the tape library, 
backups running to the
> same pool,
> the Offsite pool, will try to write to these tapes.  
If we write protect
> the
> tapes, the backups
> will still attempt to write to these tapes, but then 
fail when they can't.
>
> Some of these restore requests are urgent, but the 
offsite backups are
> critical.  We have
> not figured out a way to do both at the same time.  
We are considering
> buying a small
> server to be designated as a restore-only server, but 
have questions on how
> to do this.
> I assume we would have to have a daily copy of the 
NetBackup catalogs from
> the backup
> server to the restore server.  Would it be that easy?
>
> Any thoughts on this problem or restore server idea 
would be appreciated.
>
> NetBackup 3.2, Jumbo patch 363
> Solaris 2.6
>
> Thanks,
> Kathy
>
>
> Kathy Collins
> Coral Energy, L.L.P
> Phone: 713.230.3426
> kcollins AT coral-energy DOT com
>
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