Well, I'm not going to argue with you since I've been 
away from OpenVision for some years now, perhaps one of 
the Veritas guys can give us the inside scoop on how 
this works.

Like I said, this is from my experience both using the 
product and as an OpenVision consultant.


Quoting Michael Wei <wei AT colltech DOT com>:

> 
> No so.  Netbackup duplication doesn't even sit in any 
queue with backup or
> restore, nor does it have any priority over or under 
any backup or restore
> job.  It'll keep running even you're backing up your 
database.   Unless,
> it's waiting for a tape that's being written or read 
by a backup or restore
> job.
>
>
> > From veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu  Wed 
Mar 28 09:41:10 2001
> > List-Archive: 
<http://mailman.eng.auburn.edu/pipermail/veritas-bu/>
> > Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 07:34:49 -0800 (PST)
> >
> > In my experience, bpduplicate has a lower priority 
than
> > restore requests which have a lower priority than
> > backup requests.
> >
> > while it didn't really 'pause', once it completed 
the
> > duplication stream, it fell back in the priority 
queue
> > behind restore before the next duplication stream
> > kicked off.
> >
> > At least this has been my experience.
> >
> > David
> > <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>
> > David A. Chapa
> > Consulting Manager
> > DataStaff, Inc.
> > 847 413 1144
> > http://www.consulting.datastaff.com
> > ---------------------------------------
> > NBU-LSERV AT datastaff DOT com - Adv. Scripting
> >
> >
> > Quoting David Turner <Dturner AT manh DOT com>:
> >
> > > Yesterday I had to restore a mailbox however the
> > duplicates were running.
> > > Because this was a urgent restore I selected the
> > appropriate files & qeued
> > > the restore job. After the restore, started I 
realize
> > the duplicates were
> > > still running. I am not sure but, I think the 
system
> > gave priority to the
> > > restore job, pausing the duplicates, & then 
resuming
> > the duplicates after
> > > the restore was done. Does this sound logical as 
I am
> > very new to the
> > > netbackup scene. Can someone shed some light on 
this
> > issue? I am running
> > > ver
> > > 3.4 on Exchange 5.5 on NT SP6.
> > >
> > >
> > > Thx
> > > David
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