Have you changed the global attribute in NetBackup from the default MAX COPIES 
of 2 to 3?

The behaviour you describe would lead me to verify that first.

David




Quoting avi.barsheshet AT mailpoalim.co DOT il:

> 
> 
> We are using multiple copies to backup our clients (2 copies).
> Every morning we run a vault session to duplicate the first copy to 3rd copy
> and
> eject the 3rd copy from the robot.
> In the logs I see that the vault is skipping some images althouth there is
> only
> 2 copies.
> the message i'm getting is:
> 
> skipping copy 2 of backup id [image], is not required copy 1.
> 
> what does it mean?
> i need to have 3 copies of every image and part of them have 2 copies and
> other
> part have 3 copies (after voult).
> 
> Master server: win 2000
> NetBackup 4.5 (MP2)
> 
> 
> 
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