Author: BuckRM AT NORTHAMERICA.Stortek DOT com (Buck, Robert M)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:52:49 -0700
I have a customer that is currently using NBU and backing up directly to STK tape drives in STK silos. They now want to backup to disk first and at some later time move that data to tape. What is the
Author: David A. Chapa" <david AT datastaff DOT com (David A. Chapa)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:41:51 -0800 (PST)
I'm not sure of what they are ultimately wanting, but without using HSM you could do as you described. Then I would run bpduplicate to duplicate those images on disk to a tape storage unit (which I'm
The best way that comes to mind is backing up to the disk storage unit, then later running a duplication process from the disk storage unit to the tape storage unit. This is easily scripted with bpdu
Author: Jacksonr AT lucent DOT com (Raymond Jackson)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:13:56 -0800
When NBU backs up to disk media what actually gets put on the disk? Is it the files being backed up or a series of tar files such as it would write to tape? Robert; Depending on what your customer is
It is the NetBackup images and image fragments that are generated by the backup. The backup id is included in the written filename, so identifying them is easy. --PLB