A couple of thoughts for you.

Yes it can be automated and Veritas has a consulting 
services product called bpVault which is charged with 
the task of dup'ing your images, tracking the media 
offsite and managing when those images expire and the 
media is available for re-use.

You can script some of this yourself if you are willing 
to do so.  The bpduplicate command is documented fairly 
well in the SysAdmin guide for Netbackup.  There is 
also a sample duplication script in 
the /usr/openv/netbackup/goodies directory that you can 
review as well.  

Some of us on this list (myself included) have written 
duplication scripts.  Mine consist of four scripts to 
process the duplication jobs and report on offsite 
inventory, track image expiration, etc.

Natually depending on what you are trying to accomplish 
this task can be quick or quite involved.

I know this doesn't answer your question completely, 
but I hope it gets you closer to your solution.

David Chapa

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David A. Chapa
Consulting Manager
DataStaff, Inc.
(847) 413 1144


Quoting Randy Wilson <RWilson AT RBMG DOT com>:

> 
>       I am a new Netbackup administrator and I have a 
couple of questions
> about tape management. My company has implemented 
Netbackup in the Unix and
> NT environment. They have asked me to make sure that 
each nights backups
> are
> available to send offsite and that we keep a local 
copy for onsite
> restores.
> I do not have the available backup window to run 
separate jobs for onsite
> and offsite storage so I am thinking I must use the 
tape duplication
> feature. My problem is that duping the many tapes we 
have each day is a
> very
> time consuming task, there has to be a better way! 
Can anyone steer me in
> the right direction? Is there some way to automate 
this task? Is this what
> I
> should be doing at all? Thanks for your help.
>