Daniel Lupton wrote:

>Hi Louis,
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>We currently run a this type of process monthly to import the tapes from
>out production Master to our test Master server. All that is required is to
>import the tapes (there are 2 phases to this and is described in the
>administration guide) and it works fine.
>
>Regards,
>Daniel Lupton
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>Hi!
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>Any tried to restore a tape from another master?
>I know i will have to read the tape to add it to the catalog but is there
>other steps to do?
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>We want to do some type of DR and want to know how to restore a tape that
>was created somewhere else.
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>Thanks
>Louis Francoeur
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I do something similar for a Disaster recovery process but have taken it 
a step further. As this import process can take a long time ( was taking 
me 14 hours to import tapes in a DR test ) i decided to ftp the 
catalogue over to the DR site daily from production site.

As the backup master servers are the same name ( which is key to the 
next process ) in the event of a DR all i do is take the tapes over, 
then import the production site catalogue over the DR site backup 
server. Have to do a couple of tweaks and then netbackup knows whats on 
each tape so you can restore.

This cut the 14 hours of tapes reads down to about 30 mins of admin 
work. Key in a DR scenario.

Food for thought

Dave