[Veritas-bu] Indefinite offsite storage and a cookbook example?

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It's called Netbackup Vault. You can do everything your talking about and
more by using this product. You can either vault your primary backup or you
can dup your primary backup so you can retain your primary on-site and
transport your dup offsite with a common tape archive company. Talk to your
Veritas Sales rep for more info. It's a Veritas Pro-Services offering
currently and will eventually be bundled into Datacenter as a licensed
upgrade( I'm hoping, because it's a bear to install by itself and it
currently doesn't have any GUI interfaces either).

Thanks,

Craig Everett
PS Systems Consultant
Advanced Systems Group
Office 858.277.9544 x4007
Wireless 619.917.6030
ceverett AT virtual DOT com




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[mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu]On Behalf Of Kovar,
David
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 1:21 PM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Indefinite offsite storage and a cookbook example?


Good afternoon,

I'm trying to determine two things:

1) What is the best way to configure NetBackup for indefinite offsite
storage of all of the full backups.

        We want to permanently store some of our full backups offsite
indefinitely. I think the right thing to do is:

        1) Perform the full backup.
        2) Move all the the tapes used, including the catalog backup tape,
to an OffSite Group
        3) Eject and physically move the tapes.

        Do I need to change the expiration on these tapes?
        Am I missing some other step?


2) Has anyone written a cookbook example for doing offsite storage? I read
through most of the printed documentation and looked at the Veritas website.
I cannot find any sort of white paper on how best to do offsite storage.
Pros and cons, examples that include the various steps you need to perform,
etc. Am I simply missing something obvious? Some questions that the paper
might cover are:

        - How do you identify the tapes used? (Images on Media report)
        - Do you remove the catalog backup tape as well, and how do you make
sure you have the right one?
        - What do you do, if anything, with the expiration time on the
tapes?
        - Do you move the tapes to a new group or not?

I am new to NetBackup and am swamped in reading material. Fun stuff!

-David

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