If that's what you want to do, then Nic's suggestion is the best for you. It's also probably the cheapest as SLP requires Advanced Disk and associated licensing.

However, if you want to use SLP in that manner, then you will have to utilize cron to disable and enable SLP for the times you want it to run. It is specifically designed to get the duplications completed as soon as it can and therefore does not (currently) have a window like classic DSSUs. Using cron is actually mentioned in the manual or best practice guide so it is a recognized workaround.

I'm curious what your need is to schedule it to tape on certain days?

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Nic Solomons <Nic.Solomons AT attenda DOT net> Sent by: <veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu> 11/19/2010 08:54 AM

To "netbackup.info@gmail.com" <netbackup.info@gmail.com> cc "veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu> Subject Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk Staging to tape

Oh, yeah, sorry.
 
In brief:
-Create a basic DSSU.
-Backup policies as per normal (i.e. daily jobs, after hours, whatever you do), pointed at your newly created DSSU as the destination storage unit.
-DSSU configured with a schedule (either using the GUI, or bpschedule – which works similar to bpplsched, but is just for DSSUs); the schedule in the DSSU specifies your destination storage unit / volume etc (which is how you get it to tape), and this is where you specify the 2 days you want it to go to tape.
 
If you want anymore info on it, let me know.
 
Cheers,
Nic
 
From: Todd Jackxon [mailto:netbackup.info AT gmail DOT com]
Sent: 19 November 2010 13:35
To: Nic Solomons
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Disk Staging to tape
 
Hi Nic
 
Thanks for the follow up. Can you briefly decribe how you would set this up or have set this up?
I'm trying to understand the how both , disk and tape, policies would combine.
 
It doesn't need to use an SLP - whichever works best
 
Thanks again
 
Jack
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Nic Solomons <Nic.Solomons AT attenda DOT net> wrote:
Do you specifically need to use an SLP?

What you want to do can be achieved easily with a basic DSSU.
The destage schedule works like a normal policy schedule, so only running on 2 specific days a week is a simple proposition...


Cheers,
Nic

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From: "Todd Jackxon" <netbackup.info@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Nov 19, 2010 05:39
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Disk Staging to tape
To: "veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu" <veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu>

Hello

I am working on a plan to backup clients to disk and later stage these off to tape.
Can anyone elaborate how this is being done from your end?

Basic Idea:

Backups occur daily to disk and the business would like to stage these to tape twice a week.

Creating a Life Cycle policy I can run a backup job and a duplication job to tape but there is no
way to schedule this to tape on certain days. Just the ability to run a duplication job.

Within a normal policy you can run an inline copy to run concurrently (up to 4 storage units) but this
appears to be backups running at the same time.

How can I combine these methods (or use another method) to run my life cycle policy backup and then
stage these to tape on a Tuesday and Thursday? Any information would be appreciated.

Thanks

Jack
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