I need to backup some data to send to one of our customers, however I'm unsure 
how safe/easy this is.
I _believe_ that I should simply do a backup, then duplicate it and send them 
the tape.  Theoretically they should be able to put it in a drive connected to 
their NetBackup server and import the tape.  Right?

I'm not sure if this is a good way to go.  I'd much rather just tar the data to 
tape so I _know_ they can get the data from tape, but they are asking for a NB 
tape.  

Followup question is, the backup I'm doing for them is being done in a brand 
new class for a one-time backup (since we only want to give them a small amount 
of data, not a full regular backup).  Is there a way I could make this one-time 
backup ready for export without having to make it and then duplicate it?  I 
believe the reason I have to do the duplicate on this tape is because normal 
backups don't put the catalog info on the same tape as the backup, untill you 
do a duplicate, right?

.........or do I need NB Vault for this sorta thing?

brockwood AT homestead-inc DOT com