We are actually looking at VTL as a our "tape library" for Site A. And yes,
some of those VTLs can replicate (over IP) in background. Too bad NetBackup
does not know about those images/tapes that VTL replicated to off-site 
location...

-----Original Message-----
From: "Greenberg, Katherine A" <GreenbergKA AT aetna DOT com>
To: "Aleksandr Rainchik" <rainchik AT mail DOT ru>
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2005 08:49:24 -0400
Subject: RE: Re[2]: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting / duplication across network

> You also might want to take a look at a VTL that is more integrated with
> your tape library.  That way it can handle the offload functionality
> itself. 
>  
> Buy a solution, not a bunch of stuff you have to put together ;)
>  
> ~Kate
>  
>  -----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 
> Greenberg,
> Katherine A
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 8:43 AM
> To: Aleksandr Rainchik
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: Re[2]: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting / duplication across network
> 
> 
> 
> Yup makes sense. 
> 
> I've never been tasked with that particular issue and I don't think I'd
> want to Vault over an IP link, but, you can probably set it up (I'm sure
> someone will correct me if I'm wrong). Using the advanced configuration
> options in the Vault settings, you can select a storage unit as source
> and a storage unit as destination. You should be able to set Media
> server A STU as source and Media server B STU as destination.
> 
> Best of luck :) 
> 
> ~Kate 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> <mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu> ] On Behalf Of
> Aleksandr Rainchik
> 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 8:30 PM 
> To: Greenberg, Katherine A 
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> Subject: Re[2]: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting / duplication across network 
> 
> 
> Kate, 
> 
> No, not exactly. 
> 
> Let's say we have two sites, Site A and Site B 
> 
> Here is how we do backup: 
> 
> Server A -> Media Server A -> Robot A -> Tape Drive A -> Tape A 
> 
> Here is how we want to do vault/duplication: 
> 
> Tape A -> Robot A -> Media Sever A -> [IP LINK(WAN)] -> Media Server B
> -> Robot B -> Tape Drive B -> Tape B 
> 
> Backup image should be copied from Site A/ Robot A / Media Sever A to
> different Site B / Robot B / Media Server B. 
> 
> Media servers A and B are connected to Robots A and B. Media Server A
> does not have direct (FC) access to tapes on site B, there is only IP
> link between sites.
> 
> Does it make sense? 
> 
> -- Alex 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: "Greenberg, Katherine A" <GreenbergKA AT aetna DOT com> 
> To: "Aleksandr Rainchik" <rainchik AT mail DOT ru> 
> Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:08:15 -0400 
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting / duplication across network 
> 
> > You can set it up so that you're doing an *Alternate Read server* and 
> > read the tapes that are written on the source media server on the 
> > destination one so that the Vaulting is being done locally to one 
> > host. 
> > 
> > Is that what you're looking for? 
> > 
> > ~Kate 
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> > [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> <mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu> ] On Behalf Of 
> > Aleksandr Rainchik 
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 11:01 AM 
> > To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu 
> > Subject: [Veritas-bu] Vaulting / duplication across network 
> > 
> > 
> > Hello, 
> > 
> > Just wondering if anyone has experience with running NetBackup Vault 
> > jobs where source tape drives are on one media server and destination 
> > tape drives are on different media server, so you are doing Vault 
> > accross the network. 
> > 
> > We are looking into doing local backups to Virtual Tape library and to
> 
> > use NetBackup Vault to copy those images to an off-site 
> > (real) tape library. 
> > 
> > Thank you! 
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