Hi,
If I use this bpduplicate command, If I want to
restore data using this offsite tape, do I need to
import first? Since NB catalog only have an entry for
onsite tape. Am I correct here?
regards,
feroz
--- "Donaldson, Mark"
<Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com> wrote: > Well, you've
got two drives, that's the minimum, of
> course (one read, one
> write).
>
> Easist way I can think...
>
> First create a destinatin pool. You should create a
> volume pool just for
> your offsite backups (I use "Offsite"). This is for
> two reasons, first to
> easily the tapes that are intended for offsite;
> secondly to guarentee that
> your source tape is different from your destination
> tape.
>
> Then, if I were doing this, write a script that you
> can trigger with
> backup_exit_notify on the master server. Have the
> script check the policy
> that was used and if correct, then call a
> bpduplicate job that looks
> something like this:
>
> bpduplicate -policy <policy_name_to_be_duplicated>
> -hoursago 12 -dp
> <offsite_pool> -dstunit <storage_unit_name>
>
> It should take all jobs in the policy name created
> in the past 12 hours and
> write a duplicate to the offsite pool name. The
> "hoursago" value should be
> long enough to extend past the start of the backup
> job but not so far as to
> catch two night's run.
>
> This isn't complete but it should be a pretty-good
> jumping-off point.
>
> -M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Feroz F. Basir [mailto:dbase77 AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:28 PM
> To: Donaldson, Mark
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] vault on nb4.5
>
>
> Hi again,
>
> This is what I have. I have 2 lto drives attached to
> our L25 tape library. Every day I run full backup of
> our system which run oracle database and 3rd party
> application. At the moment, I ran schedule backup
> every nite and keep the tape onsite. I want to
> change
> the backup procedure and want to keep onsite and
> offsite backup tape. I've been told that "vault"
> only
> supported in datacenter. So I stuck with bpduplicate
> then. I need some advice on how should I persue this
> situation as I never use bpduplicate before.
>
> I'm running solaris 8 sparc which attached to L25
> tape
> library.
>
> Thank you again.
>
> regards,
> feroz
>
>
>
> --- "Donaldson, Mark"
> <Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com> wrote: > I use this
> command weekly to create my offsite
> > backups. The man page has a
> > good explation of all of its features but here's
> the
> > quick list:
> >
> >
> /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpduplicate
> > [-dstunit
> > destination_storage_unit_label] [-p |
> -pb
> > | -PM | -PD] [-Bidfile
> > file_name] [-v] [-client name] [-st
> > sched_type] [-sl sched_label]
> > [-L output_file] [-dp
> > destination_pool_name] [-shost source_host]
> > [-class name] [-s mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss]
> [-e
> > mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss] [-ct
> > class_type] [-hoursago hours] [-cn
> > copy_number] [-M
> > master_server]
> > [-backupid backup_id] [-id media_id]
> > [-mpx]
> >
> >
> > Knowing what you want to duplicate and why would
> > help to giving advice on
> > how to proceed.
> >
> > -M
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Feroz F. Basir [mailto:dbase77 AT yahoo DOT com]
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 1:21 PM
> > To: Donaldson, Mark
> > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] vault on nb4.5
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thank you for replying. Have you ever use this
> > command
> > before? If you do, can you give me some example,
> > please? If I duplicate using this command, I
> wonder
> > if
> > I need to import the image on nb database.
> >
> > regards,
> > feroz
> >
> > --- "Donaldson, Mark"
> > <Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com> wrote: > The
> > "bpduplicate" command will duplicate a backup
> > > without using vault. It's
> > > not an answer to your question but it's an
> > > alternative.
> > > -M
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Feroz F. Basir [mailto:dbase77 AT yahoo DOT com]
> > > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 12:36 PM
> > > To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > > Subject: [Veritas-bu] vault on nb4.5
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Can I use vault with my netbackup business
> server
> > > 4.5?
> > > I'm trying to make duplicate copy of my backup
> > every
> > > nite for off site tape.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Feroz
> > >
> > >
> >
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