Hi,
Very good. Let say my onsite (original) backup tape
corrupted for some reason. Do I need to change the
offsite tape as primary? I assume I have to do that
since NB catalog only request the original tape as you
said earlier. Do correct me if my theory is wrong
here.
Thanks again. I wonder if you work with data centre or
someting. You seem to know NB very well. I just
started to learn the functionality of NB towards
business.
regards,
feroz
--- "Donaldson, Mark"
<Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com> wrote: > The
duplicate copy is recorded in the catalog as
> well as the tapes used for
> you. There's a copy number in the "FRAG" records
> for "bpimagelist" along
> with the tape each fragment copy is on. All of that
> is part of your
> catalog. If your catalog is intact, importing the
> tapes to be able to use
> the duplicate is not necessary.
>
> The "primary" copy, the one used for restore
> requests, by default, will be
> the first backup made. Your offsite copy will not
> be requested for restore
> unless the primary copy expires or you deliberatly
> change the second copy to
> be the primary restore copy (bpduplicate's "-npc"
> option.).
>
> HTH - Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Feroz F. Basir [mailto:dbase77 AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:29 PM
> To: Donaldson, Mark
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] vault on nb4.5
>
>
> 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,
> > > >
>
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