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From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Darren
Dunham
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 1:10 PM
To: Veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Offsite tapes

> using NBU 6.0 (master and media servers are Solaris). There are about 
> 8 machines whose backups I want to duplicate. Some backup go directly 
> to tape and some are staged to disk. I use automatic staging. When I 
> run a script to use bpduplicate I notice I sometimes get errors like
this:
> =20
> nbdup.log:11:06:54 INF - Skipping backup id amamed_1181109602, it 
> already has 2 copies.
> =20
> I assume that has to do with whether or not my script runs after the 
> backup has already been staged to tape. What I need to know is how 
> best to deal with that and get a copy whether or not a backup has been

> migrated to tape or not.

Since this is 6.0, and it sounds like you might have 3 copies
legitimately (disk, tape, duplicate tape), then up your max copies to 3.
(Host Properies->Master Server->Properties->Global Attributes)

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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I keep my max copies set to 1 number higher than is required incase I
ever have to create an additional copy of a tape for coporate.  Never
know when they will want something.

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