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[Veritas-bu] Staging & Duplication

2005-04-11 16:37:40
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Staging & Duplication
From: roger AT dcvast DOT com (Roger Dombrowski)
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 15:37:40 -0500
That did the trick, thanks!

Dongfang_Liao AT kaltire DOT com wrote:

>You need to enable maximum copies in the global attributes. Maximum to 4 
>copies total for one image if you don't have vault license.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Roger
>Dombrowski
>Sent: April 11, 2005 1:01 PM
>To: Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com
>Cc: jeffm AT nicusa DOT com; Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Staging & Duplication
>
>
>Am I doing something wrong? In our lab DSSU, when I go to modify the 
>"Disk Staging Schedule...">
>Destination> "Multiple copies" selection is greyed out.  So I would have 
>thought that you have
>to home grow a solution to get this to work.
>
>Should I be able to create Multiple copies out of the DSSU (within the 
>DSSU framework)?
>
>Mark.Donaldson AT cexp DOT com wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Using Vault or using scripts?
>>
>>A scripted method would be: 
>>
>>Once staged to disk, you can use the "bpimmedia -mediaid /stage_dir" to list
>>the images on the disk storage region and write the image IDs to a file or
>>files.
>>
>>Then use the bpduplicate command with the -Bidfile option to feed these
>>files into the duplication command.  bpduplicate can create more than one
>>copy with differing retention levels & pools at the same time.  Note,
>>bpduplicate deletes the Bidfile after using it (a bug I think) so keep a
>>copy elsewhere.
>>
>>Finally, for successfully duplicated images, expire the on-disk copy using
>>"bpexpdate".
>>
>>This is simplified, you should check return codes and, perhaps, verify the
>>number of copies before exipiring the on-disk copy but the structure is
>>complete.
>>
>>I used to do this for years in my old shop.
>>
>>-M
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Jeff
>>McCombs
>>Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 1:26 PM
>>To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>>Subject: [Veritas-bu] Staging & Duplication
>>
>>
>>Gang,
>>
>>   Is it possible to do disk staging operations and still enable
>>multiple-copies of data into different pools?
>>
>>   I'd really like to be able to stage full backups, and duplicate tapes
>>into different pools with different retention levels, but I haven't figured
>>out how to make it work.
>>
>>   Anyone have any ideas?
>>
>>  this is with Veritas 5.1 MP2, Solaris.
>>
>>
>>
>>--
>>   "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other
>>    invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of
>>    handguns and tequila."
>>       - Mitch Ratcliffe
>>
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