Mike Elwood wrote:
> 
> However, I have not spotted in the docs how one would go about this.
> 
   The short version is that you set up a Storage Unit on a big chuck of disk 
space, and run your backups there. Later on, you _duplicate_ those images onto 
a tape Storage Unit. You can then expire the images on the disks, or keep them 
around for a while in order to restore faster.
>
> [I'm afraid I don't seem to have previously spotted the 
> script referred to below]
>
   It was in an email to the list from Mark Donaldson last September. I can 
email it to you offlist if you like.
> 
> From the clues below, it sounds like you need to define the disk area
> as a storage unit, but I don't know how to go about that.
>
   Easy: when you create the STU, it's not a Media Manager STU, but a Disk STU. 
<HomerSimpson>Mmmmm, disk stew.</HomerSimpson>
> 
> A follow-up question: if using bpduplicate to get the disk image to 
> tape, does this mean you are restricted (in 3.4 anyway) to a single 
> tape copy?
>
   No idea. Is this a problem? :7)
-wde
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Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI