Hi,

 

Sorry for the late reply (trying to catch up).

 

I have a customer using an HP VTL with NBU 5.1 and NBU Vault without any
(major) problems.

 

>From what has been discussed here, VTL's work in 2 ways:

1.      The VTL sits "in front" of the actual Library and clones the tapes
that are in the physical lib. NBU sees only the VTL. All backups are done on
the VTL and it copies the data to the physical tapes.
2.      The VTL is in the configuration as a separate library. Backups are
done on the VTL and Vaulting (or a script) duplicates the data to the
physical tapes.

 

I have not seen any limitation in NBU regarding to VTL's

 

Regards,

Jim

 

 

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From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hindle, Greg
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 7:29 PM
To: Paul Keating; veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL images to tape

 

Paul,

The vaulting in 5.0 does not allow images to be copied from a VTL to tape.
The option is in the software but it does not work. We have confirmed this
with Symantec that the vault was written for tape to tape copies not for VTL
to tape. Even though netbackup sees that virtual tapes fine vault someone
"knows" these are not real tapes and copy process does not function.

 

 

Greg 

 

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From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Keating
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 11:41 AM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] VTL images to tape

Have you thought of using Netbackup Vault, or are you purposefully trying to
avoid the licensing costs?

 

with Vault, once you setup the policies, you'd schedule the duyplication
jobs just as you would a backup schedule.

 

Paul

 

 

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[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Hindle, Greg
Sent: August 22, 2006 11:33 AM
To: NB List Mail
Subject: [Veritas-bu] VTL images to tape

Nb 5.0 mp6 Solaris 9 

We are getting ready to use EMC CDL VTL solution. One thing we see is that
we need a script that will run everyday, possibility several times a day to
copy the images from the VTL tapes and write them to physical tape. Does
anyone have a script that does this? We need to vault the images off the VTL
to tape and will need a script using Netbackup commands to do this part
manually. How is every one that uses a VTL getting those images off to tape.

 

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