Thanks for the responses. I spoke to our sales rep and he will verify if
Netbackup 5.x is able to read backup exec tapes.

Rudy 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vincent_Mase AT harvardpilgrim DOT org
[mailto:Vincent_Mase AT harvardpilgrim DOT org] 
Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 9:16 PM
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Re: BackupExec Migration


We recently migrated from BE to Netbackup and had the same concern about
reading the BackupExec
Media.   We were going to use the Netbackup BE tape reader option, which is
basically a BE
installation sitting inside of Netbackup.  We decided not to do this, in
fact Veritas strongly
advised against the BE tape reader option, because it added complexity and
another layer to
troubleshoot if anything went wrong w/ the installation. Our BE installation
included the SSO option
so all the catalogs resided on a single BE server.  We kept this server in
place, and attached to
our SAN fabric, stopping all BE services and setting them to manual. If we
had a very large restore
we shut down NBU, bring up BE which could access our tape library, import
the required tapes and run
the restore.  This also gave us a fallback plan if anything went wrong w/
the NBU installation.  We
also installed BE on a separate server w/ a single direct attached tape
drive, and migrated the BE
catalog and PVL.mdb file to that server and used it for smaller day to day
file restores.  As time
went by the restore requests from the old BE tapes became less and less.
Eventually we retired the
SAN attached BE installation.  At this point the BE media is almost all
expired and usable in
Netbackup, and what's left is archival media that will probably never be
used again.


Vincent Mase
Perot Systems



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