If you look at the documentation on how to setup the DB backup for
automation, you can have up to two destinations and they are either disk or
media manager locations.  That's pretty straightforward...however...

The only thing that becomes less than straightforward is when you want to
move outside that paradigm and maintain more than 2 copies for whatever
reason.  In that case, you have to script it.  Or if you are doing
duplication and as part of the duplication set you want to include a copy of
the DB, the you will script that as well.

The best thing about Netbackup is that you are giving so much flexibility.
Some would say to a fault, but I would STRONGLY disagree, flexibility is the
name of the game the more you GUI-tize things the less flexible they tend to
become.


LONG LIVE THE CLI!!!

Just my opinion of course...

David Chapa

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-admin AT eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Dennis Dwyer
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 1:39 PM
To: stevew AT colltech DOT com; Jacksonr AT lucent DOT com
Cc: veritas-bu AT eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Command line to change Netbackup DB
backupdestination?


I believe we have all seen, courtesy of this list server, that when it comes
to the NBDB backup, nothing is straightforward.

Quote: "Time is not a test of the truth"
Translation: Just because you've always done it that way, doesn't make it
right

Dennis F. Dwyer
Enterprise Storage Manager
Tampa Electric Company

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>>> Raymond Jackson <Jacksonr AT lucent DOT com> 02/02/01 01:48PM >>>

  I saw the discussions about ways to backup the NB DB, but what
I want to do should be simpler than that.  I just want to change
the mediaID of the tape to which the DB backups will be written.
I could use bpadm via an expect script, but I'm hoping that there
is a more straightforward way to do it.

Ray

Steve White wrote:
>
> If only it were that easy :-)
>
> There has been a lot of discussion in this list lately concerning scripts
> that are designed to accomplish what you're looking for.  You may want to
> look back through the messages for January, there are some good scripts in
> there.
>
> Steve White
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
>   Is there a way to change either of the Netbackup DB backup
> destinations from the command line?  I'd like to automate rotating
> the media to which we backup the DB.
>
> Ray Jackson
> Lucent Technologies
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