Hi,
I recall seeing some time back a website that had NB scripts that were
submitted by members of this group. Could someone please post that url?
Thanks!!
Steve Goodman
INHS\IRM Operations
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1. Re: Offsite Rotation without Vault Option (John Meyers)
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Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 21:13:54 -0500 (EST)
From: John Meyers <john.meyers AT wright DOT edu>
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Offsite Rotation without Vault Option
To: "Leary, Mike" <mleary AT trusecureonline DOT com>
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On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Leary, Mike wrote:
> Is anyone running Offsite Rotations of tapes without the Vault option for
> Veritas Netbackup?
>
> We are currently running 3.4.1 (with plans to upgrade soon) and are having
> lots of 'fun' trying to get a solid process in place for offsite rotation
> without using the Vault option (not going to get it any time soon - not in
> the budget). Does anyone know of a way to script some of the necessary
> items with regarding ejecting tapes, reloading returned tapes, etc?
>
> Thanks in advance!!!!!!
We've been running with our own home grown procedures for a while now.
Although as our environment grows, I'm definitely looking into cutting
over to Vault or a third party vaulting option.
Right now, our backup schedules look like,
daily incrementals
weekly fulls performed on the weekend (split over sat/sun)
after the fulls complete on a given day (usually less than 8hrs with our
current load), I have a script that runs bpduplicate to create copies of
the full backup tapes. Once the duplication process completes, it
records the list of media id's to an offsite tape list. These tapes are
also assigned to an 'Offsite' volume pool as they're assigned. I also
use a fresh set of 3 tapes each week that I rotate on a daily basis for
catalog backups. These tapes are also included in the offsite tape list.
Then at the start of the week I kick out the offsite tape list for our
operations staff to eject from the library.
In terms of our tape handling procedures, these are pretty site specific
since we're using a STK silo with the tape manager (Lib Station) running
on our OS/390 mainframe. They basically send me a daily report with a
listing of tapes in the silo and tapes which have been removed from the
silo. I then have a daily job which runs against the report and updates
the robot_type to either "acs" or "none" depending on whether the tapes
have been returned or pulled from the silo. I also have another daily
job which goes through and returns unassigned volumes to the scratch
pool (additionally reinitializing expired catalog backup tapes).
So in all, I probably have five or six scripts that are actually called
in the process.
nbduplicate
- calls bpduplicate to create copies of full backups
nb-update-scratch
- returns unassigned (expired) volumes to the scratch pool
nb-update-offsite-tapes
- adds duplicated media id's to the offsite tape list
nb-create-offsite-backups
- calls nbduplicate script to duplicate full backups created
within the last 24 hours
- calls nb-update-offsite-tapes script to record media ids used
during the tape duplication to offsite tape list
- performs a catalog backup following tape duplication
- rolls over the offsite and nbdb tape lists when run on mondays
nb-create-tape-eject-list
- reads media ids from offsite and nbdb tape list to create tape
eject list
- transfers eject list to ACS host for operations
- creates a tape report listing tapes going offsite and e-mails
it to the backupadmin addres
nb-update-lib-status
- copies tape volume report from ACS host
- checks for tapes entering or leaving the silo
- updates NetBackup tape library based on the changes
found in the ACS report. sets robot_type on volumes
to either "acs" or "none" depending on presence in
the silo.
Anyway, this is pretty much a high level view of the process I'm
currently using. Although as soon as I get some time, I plan on
doing some testing with Vault. While the above process works for
now, it is some fragile.
Hope this helps.
John
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John Meyers
Computing Services
Wright State University
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