And if you aren't sure you are ready for vault today 
(meaning that you would be in the future) you could 
take a look at my duplication scripts which has a 
section in there where it creates a nbu db tape for 
offsite purposes.

Vault does a much better job of tracking which tape you 
used for the db backup.  I'm in the process of 
deploying my scripts at another client and I'll be 
updating the nbu db backup section to properly track 
the tapes it uses, etc.

Just my two cents.

David

Quoting Larry Kingery <larry.kingery AT veritas DOT com>:

> You could use bpsyncinfo if you'd like to script 
this.
>
> Or you could have multiple tapes with the same 
barcodes, though only
> one set in the library at a time.
>
> Or you could use Vault Extension to automate all of 
this for you.
>
> Kovar, David writes:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > We'd like to send the most recent catalog backup 
tape off site with our
> full
> > dumps each Monday morning. There doesn't appear to 
be any need to keep it
> > offsite for more than two weeks since the next full 
dump will go with a
> more
> > recent copy of the catalog.
> >
> > I can put multiple tapes in the NetBackup volume 
pool, but I cannot
> > configure the system to use more than two tapes - 
Media 1 and Media 2.
> This
> > means that I need to reconfigure the catalog 
backups each Monday to
> reflect
> > the current tapes that I'd like to use. This isn't 
a major headache, but
> I
> > am trying to make this as hands off as possible.
> >
> > Is there any way to get NetBackup to use more than 
two catalog tapes
> > automatically?
> >
> > -David
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> --
> Larry Kingery
>   If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest 
have to drown too?
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David A. Chapa
Consulting Manager
DataStaff, Inc.
847 413 1144
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