I'm a datacenter user, I've been doing it for quite some time and taught a
class on command-line scripting at the last Veritas Vision Conference. The
two versions are nearly identical except for the client & multi-library
limitations. Version 5.0 will bring the business server even closer to the
current datacenter version functionality.
You're right - if the primary copy becomes corrupt or otherwise unusable,
you'll need to change the primary copy to be the offsite copy manually (or
manually expire the current primary copy which would automatically promote
the offsite copy to be the new primary copy.)
The real shame for you is that I seem to be the master of typos today.
-M
-----Original Message-----
From: Feroz F. Basir [mailto:dbase77 AT yahoo DOT com]
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:55 PM
To: Donaldson, Mark
Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] vault on nb4.5
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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