Instead of expiring copy 1 (00001) you can use bpchangeprimary to change
copy 2  (00037) to be the primary copy.  


Doug Preston
Systems Engineer
Land America Tax and Flood Services
Phone 626-339-5221 Ext 1104
Email  dlpreston AT landam DOT com


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-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Krzys
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2007 7:14 PM
To: VERITAS-BU AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Question about netbackup in DR


Recently I did go trough DR test and I did find hard way of recovering
my servers... Well the biggest problem that we were having was that in
our production environment we had Windows 64bit running NetBackup
server/media server. and in our DR we did not request that so they did
give us Windows 32bit instead.. well my catalogs could not be loaded
becuase of that difference... so then we did go and preloaded machine
with 64bit OS and whole installation went just perferc and recovery was
on its way.. but here are my questions regarding my DR test:

1) is there any way to use different Platrofm 64bit vs 32bit? how about
different OS Windows vs Solaris for catalog recovery? Is there any way
to conver while inporting catalogs? I suspect that answer is no but I
wanted to ask you experts out there...
2) When we do backups we do have primary copy and then we send a
duplicate tapes offiste... so I did have two copies in catalog tape lets
say 00001 and tape 00037, when I did select files to recover it said it
was waiting for tape 00001 and did not even look for tape 00037, so we
did go and expired tape 00001 and then it was able to read tape 00037.
Is there any way not to have do that? What if tape 00037 was bad and I
requested tape 00001 to be delivered and my catalog is already expired,
I would then have to scan my tape or reimport my catalog I guess but
that is stupid if you ask me...

I am not an expert thats why I wanted to see if any answers to my
questions.

By the way I did not mention I am using NetBackup 6.0MP4 if that helps
in helping me with my qurestions.

Thank you so much for help.

Regards,

Chris

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