-dp is Destination Pool, so it will use that pool to allocate media for your 
duplication effort.  If you have a Scratch pool configured, it will go to it in 
the event that your Destination Pool is depleted.

bpduplicate only concerns itself with the destination pool, not necessarily the 
source pool.  The source pool is a by-product of the images you are selecting 
to duplicate, you may have several pools that you use for backup, but if you 
execute

bpduplicate -hoursago 24 -sl full -dp Duplicates -dstunit dupSTU

it will pull any image, from any pool created 24 hours ago with the schedule 
label of "full" and send it to the dupSTU storage unit using the Duplicates 
volume pool as the destination.

HTH
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David A. Chapa * Technical Advisor, Technical Marketing * ADIC * 720.249.5836 * 
david.chapa AT adic DOT com

Pathlight VX - Integrated Disk-to-Tape Backup - http://www.adic.com


-----Original Message-----
From: John Meyers [mailto:john.meyers AT wright DOT edu] 
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 12:50 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] bpduplicate question

Quick question.  When specifying the '-dp poolname' with bpduplicate, 
does the
command allocate tapes for the copy from your default pool (e.g. 
NetBackup) and
then assign them to the pool specified when the copy finishes?  Or in 
other words,
what's the source pool from which the tape used from the copy is 
allocated from?
If a scratch pool is defined, will it automatically pull from scratch?


Thanks,

John

-- 
 John Meyers
 Computing Services
 Wright State University


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