Currently we are running cumulative differentials 6 days a week and fulls once 
a week.  We duplicate everything and send it offsite for a few weeks than 
archive it for a few years.  The business goal is to be able to go back to any 
day and recreate the data.  It worked OK for several months but now I'm not 
able to get all the duplicates finished.  We added a couple of tape drives 
which helped and we're adding another in April.  The tapes are multiplexed and 
of course the dups are not.  We don't have NBU Vault.  

I'm wondering if Vault would give us better performance or is it just for 
managing the duplicates and offsite storage?  Will Vault draw out the backup 
window to where I can't make that either?  I also want to know how much it 
costs but I have a reseller that is checking on that.

My other questions are if you all duplicate your data and send it offsite 
everyday, keeping current data onsite for restores.  We don't have SLAs set up 
with our business units.  They sometimes seem surprised when I tell them I can 
do their restore right now, so I'm guessing they would be ok with next day most 
of the time.  Our offsite service comes everyday but can of course do emergency 
drop off for a price.  

I've only been supporting Veritas NBU since March and am grateful for this 
Email list and everyone who shares their experiences on it.

NBU 4.5 FP5 Solaris 8

Cheryl King
System Administrator II

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