Rob's right, you must use a tape that is specifically 
allocated for this purpose, otherwise it will OVERWRITE 
your netbackup tape.

there I go again mis-reading the emails...maybe its 
time for those glasses...shot glasses

;~)


Quoting Rob Worman <rworman AT yahoo DOT com>:

> 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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