Running 6.5.3.1 on Solaris Master/Media servers.
We backup to a VTL, and duplicate to tape using SLP - we have had no issues 
restoring from either VTL or tape.
RMAN asks NetBackup for the image, and as long as NetBackup knows where it is, 
(i.e. where is primary copy) it restores fine.
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>Message: 5
>Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:20:32 +0100
>From: william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com
>Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] RMAN, Veritas - Correlating Media ID after tape 
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>On a similar track, has anyone experience of using staging disk (not DSSU) 
>with lifecycle policies with RMAN?
>
> The question I'm trying to answer (about to test) is that if the backup phase 
> of the SLP is to a disk STU, the backint will report to RMAN where the backup 
> has landed on disk.
>
>The duplication stage then puts that onto a tape, but RMAN will not be told (I 
>assume) what the media ID is.
>
>If a restore was requested from the agent, that I suspect is fine as NetBackup 
>will look in the catalog for where the primary copy is, and then pop up an 
>operator request for the tape (that assumes that [a] we expired the disk image 
>and [b] the tape is offsite).
>
>Our current practice is not to submit the restore request until we know the 
>media are loaded, and the list of media to request to be brought back to site 
>comes from the RMAN catalog.
>
>We suspect that is going to stop working.  Has anyone seen this problem, 
>solved this problem, or found a way to avoid it?
>
>William D L Brown


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