If you just set a low expire on the backup (1 week say) then the catalog
will forget all about the images once they have expired.
You can then just delete the tape from you media pool and you're done
(alternately just eject the tape and manually expire it using bpexpdate).
I assume you are deleting the tape or otherwise telling netbackup it's not
available anymore.
Cheers
Ed
"Donaldson, Mark" <Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com>@mailman.eng.auburn.edu
on 24/03/2004 23:31:57
Sent by: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
To: "'Ed Wilts'" <ewilts AT ewilts DOT org>, List Veritas List
<veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>
cc:
Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] One-off backups
Can't really do this under Netbackup control. If netbackup writes the tape
then netbackup should read the tape. This means the catalog and all the
other happy crap that comes along with it.
When I get a request like this, I grab an unassigned tape, remove the
barcode, remove the tape from netbackup's databases, then just use tar to
write over the tape.
You can use a library drive if you just "down" it so NB ignores the drive
for the duration of your activity.
You could use NB to write a non-mutiplexed set of images, then instruct the
user to on how to skip all the netbackup headers and read the tar files
following the headers. Special handling, in my experience, means future
problems, though.
-M
-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Wilts [mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 3:45 PM
To: List Veritas List
Subject: [Veritas-bu] One-off backups
We're starting to get requests to create one-off backups to a tape that
we can eject from our library and hand to a customer. What's the
recommended way of doing this? We're running Solaris 9, NBU 4.5FP6, and
and have the Vault option. Once we've handed the tape to a customer, we
don't need (or want) the catalog information for this, nor do we want
the tape in any pool. Basically we want to write the tape and then
forget we ever saw it. If it makes a difference, we would be writing
to an SDLT tape drive in an L700 library.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
--
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts AT ewilts DOT org
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