Mark,
bpduplicate worked fine. Thank you. I'm very curious
on how this bpduplicate works. Why bpduplicate took
copy of backup from local drive instead of copy tape
to tape? Can I do copy tape to tape instead? Or I need
this vault option add-on to do this.
Another thing is, I created new pool called "offsite".
I assigned about 30 new tapes for recycling each
month. If I want to reuse previous tape, do I need to
re-assign again to "offsite pool" as by default it
goes to NetBackup pool if I run up to date media
database.
Thank you in advance.
regards,
feroz
--- "Donaldson, Mark" <Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com>
wrote: > I'm a datacenter user, I've been doing it for
quite
> some time and taught a
> class on command-line scripting at the last Veritas
> Vision Conference. The
> two versions are nearly identical except for the
> client & multi-library
> limitations. Version 5.0 will bring the business
> server even closer to the
> current datacenter version functionality.
>
> You're right - if the primary copy becomes corrupt
> or otherwise unusable,
> you'll need to change the primary copy to be the
> offsite copy manually (or
> manually expire the current primary copy which would
> automatically promote
> the offsite copy to be the new primary copy.)
>
> The real shame for you is that I seem to be the
> master of typos today.
>
> -M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Feroz F. Basir [mailto:dbase77 AT yahoo DOT com]
> Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:55 PM
> To: Donaldson, Mark
> Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] vault on nb4.5
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Very good. Let say my onsite (original) backup tape
> corrupted for some reason. Do I need to change the
> offsite tape as primary? I assume I have to do that
> since NB catalog only request the original tape as
> you
> said earlier. Do correct me if my theory is wrong
> here.
>
> Thanks again. I wonder if you work with data centre
> or
> someting. You seem to know NB very well. I just
> started to learn the functionality of NB towards
> business.
>
> regards,
> feroz
>
>
> --- "Donaldson, Mark"
> <Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com> wrote: > The
> duplicate copy is recorded in the catalog as
> > well as the tapes used for
> > you. There's a copy number in the "FRAG" records
> > for "bpimagelist" along
> > with the tape each fragment copy is on. All of
> that
> > is part of your
> > catalog. If your catalog is intact, importing the
> > tapes to be able to use
> > the duplicate is not necessary.
> >
> > The "primary" copy, the one used for restore
> > requests, by default, will be
> > the first backup made. Your offsite copy will not
> > be requested for restore
> > unless the primary copy expires or you deliberatly
> > change the second copy to
> > be the primary restore copy (bpduplicate's "-npc"
> > option.).
> >
> > HTH - Mark
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Feroz F. Basir [mailto:dbase77 AT yahoo DOT com]
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 3:29 PM
> > To: Donaldson, Mark
> > Cc: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] vault on nb4.5
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > If I use this bpduplicate command, If I want to
> > restore data using this offsite tape, do I need to
> > import first? Since NB catalog only have an entry
> > for
> > onsite tape. Am I correct here?
> >
> > regards,
> > feroz
> >
> >
> > --- "Donaldson, Mark"
> > <Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com> wrote: > Well,
> > you've
> > got two drives, that's the minimum, of
> > > course (one read, one
> > > write).
> > >
> > > Easist way I can think...
> > >
> > > First create a destinatin pool. You should
> create
> > a
> > > volume pool just for
> > > your offsite backups (I use "Offsite"). This is
> > for
> > > two reasons, first to
> > > easily the tapes that are intended for offsite;
> > > secondly to guarentee that
> > > your source tape is different from your
> > destination
> > > tape.
> > >
> > > Then, if I were doing this, write a script that
> > you
> > > can trigger with
> > > backup_exit_notify on the master server. Have
> the
> > > script check the policy
> > > that was used and if correct, then call a
> > > bpduplicate job that looks
> > > something like this:
> > >
> > > bpduplicate -policy
> > <policy_name_to_be_duplicated>
> > > -hoursago 12 -dp
> > > <offsite_pool> -dstunit <storage_unit_name>
> > >
> > > It should take all jobs in the policy name
> created
> > > in the past 12 hours and
> > > write a duplicate to the offsite pool name. The
> > > "hoursago" value should be
> > > long enough to extend past the start of the
> backup
> > > job but not so far as to
> > > catch two night's run.
> > >
> > > This isn't complete but it should be a
> pretty-good
> > > jumping-off point.
> > >
> > > -M
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Feroz F. Basir [mailto:dbase77 AT yahoo DOT com]
> > > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 2:28 PM
> > > To: Donaldson, Mark
> > > Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] vault on nb4.5
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi again,
> > >
> > > This is what I have. I have 2 lto drives
> attached
> > to
> > > our L25 tape library. Every day I run full
> backup
> > of
> > > our system which run oracle database and 3rd
> party
> > > application. At the moment, I ran schedule
> backup
> > > every nite and keep the tape onsite. I want to
> > > change
> > > the backup procedure and want to keep onsite and
> > > offsite backup tape. I've been told that "vault"
> > > only
> > > supported in datacenter. So I stuck with
> > bpduplicate
> > > then. I need some advice on how should I persue
> > this
> > > situation as I never use bpduplicate before.
> > >
> > > I'm running solaris 8 sparc which attached to
> L25
> > > tape
> > > library.
> > >
> > > Thank you again.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > feroz
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --- "Donaldson, Mark"
> > > <Mark.Donaldson AT experianems DOT com> wrote: > I use
> > this
> > > command weekly to create my offsite
> > > > backups. The man page has a
> > > > good explation of all of its features but
> here's
> > > the
> > > > quick list:
> > > >
>
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