Hi clifford-

-the short answer is "no, you can't do that"

The bpbackupdb command changes the status of the tape
it uses, and I strongly suspect it would complain if
you pointed it to a tape that was already known in the
media DB.  plus I think it's hardcoded to want a tape
in the netbackup pool.  plus the fact that bpbackupdb
just rewinds the tape and starts writin'...

-the long answer is "no, you don't want to do that"

the idea behind an NBU DB backup is the fact that
someday you might be in a real pinch to restore that
DB .  To this end, the bpbackupdb backup is a very
special backup - it's just a simple tar backup, no
special multiplexing/fragmenting going on - all for
the purpose of making it easy to restore by hand, from
scratch.  So you don't want it interleaved with normal
backups, at some arbitrary point on the tape, etc etc.

HTH
rob

--- clifford thurber <cthurber AT concretemedia DOT com>
wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there a way to backup up the netabackup database
> onto a specific tape, 
> one that isnt in the netbackup pool? Is there a good
> reason not to do this. 
> Right now my offiste dupes take up four tapes which
> is how many slots we 
> have in our CAP. So it is more convenient for me to
> write database backup 
> to one of those four tapes instead of ejecting a
> fifth tape which would be 
> from the netbackup pool. Any feedback would be
> greatly appreciated. I tried 
> the following command to write a backup to a
> specific tape that wasnt in 
> the netabackup pool and got the following error:
> 
> root@tapehost/ >bpbackupdb -tpath /dev/rmt/2cbn -rv
> CIB017
> media open error
> 
> Cliff
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